Chapter 30
When Lian Xi and Lie Chen went downstairs, it was sunset and the sky was full of the colors of sunset.
As the sky was getting dark, the light-sensitive street lamps on the street also lit up.
Lian Xi looked down at the white reaper record in his hand, wondering whether it was an illusion. After the Black Reaper glued back the torn pages of the ghost performance rankings of the month, he inexplicably felt that the three big characters that said “Reaper Record” in Song typeface on the cover became more vivid and bright. The entire reaper record instantly had an extra layer of presence about it.
It used to be sold for 50 cents, but now the price has gone up to one dollar.
It really was the change of the century.
The two black and white reapers of SuZhou always go out to catch ghosts at 12 o’clock midnight. This is not only because ghosts only appear at night but because Lian Xi will broadcast live at 8 o’clock in the evening until 12 o’clock midnight.
But today, he asked for leave.
Not for any other reason, just because he wanted to be an exemplary ghost official.
Lian Xi looked at Lie Chen seriously: “Lord Black Reaper, where should we go to catch ghosts today?” Lian Xi then thought about it and put forward a reliable suggestion: “Yesterday we went to the high-tech district, the day before yesterday we went to WuZhen, how about today we go to some of the small townships below SuZhou City to have a look?”
Golden… ahem, he means ghosts, weren’t just everywhere to be found.
Everyday people died in all sorts of places but there were not many ghosts who linger in the world of the living without reincarnating.
Everything is about sustainable development. In the past month or so, the two of them have visited various places in SuZhou City. Now if they had to look further, probably it would be best to get out of the city and go to the regional towns.
However, Lord Black Reaper gently shook his head: “No.”
Lian Xi: “?”
Lie Chen opened his black reaper record and gently moved his finger to the performance list.
“Heaven and earth has its path but hell hath no door!” {I translated this differently before.. But changed it to this now based on something that happens later.}
“Return!”
The next second, Lian Xi saw a faint golden light pierce through the paper and fly through the air. The golden light is only about the thickness of a human hair. Although it was dim now, if you didn’t look carefully you still wouldn’t be able to see it. The thin line pointed straight to the south and Lie Chen nodded in satisfaction, and said: “Let’s follow it, it’s pointing towards a ghost.”
Lian Xi was stunned.
The two walked for a while.
Lian Xi: “Lord Black Reaper, the reaper record has this function? How come I didn’t know before?”
Lie Chen: “Your reaper record was incomplete before.”
Lian Xi: “…Last month we hunted ghosts, how come you didn’t use this function?”
Lie Chen: “I used it.”
Lian Xi: “?” Then why didn’t I see it!
Lie Chen glanced at him: “You were still in your probation period.”
The implication: You were absent from work for more than ten years, who knows what kind of lazy and useless White Reaper you are? I’ll hide it for now and review it again after the probation period.
Lian Xi was speechless.
However, after a while Lian Xi suddenly remembered something: “The month that I ran into you on the street and you said you caught five ghosts and I had caught two?”
President Lie calmly withdrew his gaze and strode forward.
Lian Xi: “…”
I was thinking how come you could find so many lonely ghosts within a few hours! Are you still human, this is called cheating!
And not only did you cheat, you also showed off! You also looked down on me!
Shameful!
Lian Xi only stopped his cursing when Lord Black Reaper indifferently said: “Hey”.
The two looked at each other.
Lie Chen raised his eyebrows: Scolding me again?
Lian Xi smiled: Lord Black Reaper has boundless mana and he is greater than the gods.
With the map navigation function of the restored reaper record, half an hour later, the two successfully defeated a ghost.
Because the ghosts were collected by the two together, the names of the ghosts appeared on both reaper certificates but the performance can only be counted as one.
Lian Xi opened the performance rankings and frowned: “This ghost is only worth 50 points.”
The first lonely wild ghost to be defeated today was a programmer who committed suicide by jumping off a building. Obviously he had jumped to his death but he didn’t realize he was already dead. With sparse hair and glasses, he kept repeating the process of running upstairs, jumping downstairs, running upstairs and then jumping downstairs. He kept muttering: “@# $!@ #$!……”
Lian Xi didn’t understand the contents of his mutterings. It was probably some type of messy code.
Lian Xi looked at Lie Chen: “Lord Black Reaper, I have never paid attention to the points of each ghost before.”
Previously, he’d only ghost hunted to increase favorability points of the Black Reaper and rub a little golden light off him. So he hadn’t cared about the points. Besides, at the time Lian Xi’s performance ranking pages were torn out so he had no idea how much gold was involved in collecting ghosts. He thought for a while then asked: “Every time we defeat a ghost, no matter what the situation is, are they always worth 50 points?”
Lie Chen’s eyes were deep and he slowly looked over.
Was there some kind of situation? Lian Xi repeated his question: “Or is that different ghosts give different points?”
Lie Chen’s voice was calm: “This question.”
Lian Xi: “Huh?”
Lie Chen: “You can find out for yourself.”
Lian Xi “?”
Lie Chen: “It’s different but there is no pattern. Sometimes it is more, sometimes it is less.” After a pause, Lord Black Reaper deliberately added, seemingly casually: “I don’t look at it very much so I’m not very clear on it.”
Huh? Don’t you hold the reaper record 24 hours a day and read it back to front?
In the past, Lian Xi didn’t understand the Black Reaper. Why did he hold the reaper record every day, were there flowers growing on it? Now he understands that Lord Black Reaper was looking at the performance rankings!
However he didn’t think about this topic much further because Lian Xi suddenly had a revelation! He got it, it was just like those two little devils: the golden light and the red light, doing good things didn’t necessarily mean a golden light and doing bad things didn’t necessarily mean a red light.
However after thinking about it for a while, Lian Xi said: “This point system definitely has a pattern.”
The gaze of Lie Chen swept over and he didn’t disguise his shock: You actually figured that out?
The handsome and elegant black-haired young man (LX) rubbed his chin with his hand and analyzed: “First of all, there are a total of 25 cities on the performance rankings. Except for ShangHai, which is a municipality directly under the central government, the others are strictly classified according to prefecture-level city standards. JiangSu, ZheJiang and ShangHai. Although the twenty-five cities are definitely different, the gao isn’t too large. I’m not talking about the economic gap but the number of people who die every day. Maybe ShangHai has a large population and so more people die every day. So ShangHai City’s ghost official ranks third.”
Lian Xi continued quietly: “The most unfair thing in the world is how a person is born, and the most fair is how they die. Just enlarge the sample to a city with a population of several million. Unless there are natural or man-made disasters, the difference in the number of deaths per day shouldn’t be too big. But,” Lian Xi opened the Reaper Record
and pointed to WenZhou’s ghost official who ranked first: “32,752 points. And us,” his fingers went down. “1943 points. The difference is a full fifteen times!”
Lie Chen narrowed his eyes: “What do you mean?”
Lian Xi put away the reaper record: “They must have cheated or at least they have a special skill or method to maximise their performance points.”
Let’s not joke around here. This was real gold involved here… cough, he meant real professionalism. It wasn’t doing business.
Everyone in the entire country knew people in WenZhou were good at doing business. However there is no reason why WenZhou should have so many ghosts!
Lian Xi and Lie Chen both got up every day and went out to catch ghosts diligently. It can be said that they haven’t lost a day, but they have worked hard for more than half a month and only gotten 1943 points. That might have sounded okay on it’s own, but all they had their heads to look at the other person:
30,000 points!
Lian Xi: “Even if my reaper record can guide me to ghosts and you and I catch ghosts separately, that only means our individual performance should be 1-2 times more than it is now. So we should be able to reach six or seven thousand points. But not this. It definitely won’t reach 30,000.”
Six to seven thousand and thirty thousand, there is a qualitative difference.
Since the number of people that die every day should be similar between the two districts, that meant that the lonely ghosts that were sent to reincarnation every day should also be similar.
It’s impossible for there to be four to five times more people dying in WenZhou than SuZhou City. That would cause ripples in society and it definitely couldn’t be hidden.
“There is some trick here, there is definitely a trick.” Lian Xi thought angrily. If he doesn’t solve this trick, he won’t be able to ever earn a million a month in his life.”
Lie Chen: “Maybe it has something to do with the guilding golden light.”
Lian looked up at him carefully.
Lie Chen: “This golden light is thick and thin. Every time it gets thicker, you get more points. When it’s thin, you get less points.”
Didn’t you say you didn’t observe the points? Lian Xi was surprised and then said: “How many gold threads can I see at one time?”
Lie Chen: “Two threads?” Without further ado, the two opened their own reaper records.
“Heaven and earth has its path but hell hath no door!”
“Return!”
The next second, two golden rays of light swished out of the reaper records, one south and one north, flying in two directions.
It stands to reason that they, being two soldiers, should now separate and each chase a beam of golden light. But under the bright street light, Lian Xi and Lie Chen were silent. SuZhou City’s Black and White Reaper both open their eyes wide, staring in astonishment at the golden light flying out of Lian Xi’s white reaper record.
This golden light…
Was actually as thick as a baby’s arm!
Compared with this, the golden light on the black reaper record was simply a tree branch!
Was there still an option?
Lian Xi: “Shall we go together?”
Lie Chen: “Let’s go.”
Without hesitation, the two directly got into a taxi and followed the golden light’s direction.
Lian Xi originally thought that WenZhou’s ghost official, as well as Yan City’s ghost official, were cheating and had discovered some special skill for earning performance points. But now it seems there might be another possibility. Maybe some people are just born with the luck of an Emperor and can select an SSR thick golden light each time.
But…
Lian Xi lowered his head to observe the reaper record.
Is this guiding golden light really just completely random?
***
The taxi drove quickly on the airport highway.
They are driving in the direction of ShuoFang Airport which is located in the north of SuZhou City.
ShuoFang Airport is the largest civil airport in the southern part of JiangSu Province. Its full name is SuNan ShuoFang Airport. It is located in ShuoFang Town, to the south of WuXi. But this airport is very close to SuZhou City, not more than 20 kilometers away.
Originally, Lian Xi thought that this golden light was only pointing in the direction of ShuoFang Airport and did not really cross the border between SuZhou City and WuXi. Unexpectedly, the car drove further and further north. Lian Xi turned on the phone map and kept navigating, so he watched the golden light pass straight through the boundary between the two cities and then… came to the boundary of WuXi!
Lian Xi: “…”
Of course, President Lie didn’t know what Lian Xi was thinking at the moment. He also didn’t know that he had left SuZhou City and arrived in Wuxi.
Just as soon as they entered the boundary of Wuxi, the golden light quickly dissipated, but fortunately they had already seen what they needed to see. Before the golden light disappeared, it pointed to the junction of the two cities.
It is a small village on the boundary of WuXi.
The taxi driver said in authentic Wu dialect: “You want to go this way? You have to enter the village.”
Lian Xi: “It’s okay, you can let us down at the entrance of the village.”
The driver: “No problem.”
Soon, the car stopped at the intersection leading to the village entrance that the golden light was pointing at.
Lian Xi and Lie Chen got out of the car, the master took their money. The front of the car turned and then drove back to SuZhou City.
A stern and tall man got out of the car and frowned slightly as he looked at the small village in front of him.
The golden light is gone, how can he find the ghost?
It was the first time that Lie Chen encountered a situation where the golden light didn’t lead directly to the ghost and actually disappeared first.
Lie Chen walked forward randomly. Suddenly, he turned his head and raised an eyebrow: “Huh?”
Lian Xi was still standing there.
Lian Xi said quietly: “I think I probably know why the golden light suddenly disappeared…”
Lie Chen: “Why?”
Lian Xi: “Because we’ve stepped into WuXi’s territory now.”
Lie Chen: “So?”
ian Xi took a deep breath: “So… this should be regarded as WuXi’s ghost official’s job?”
Lord Black Reaper only realized now.
Lian Xi reminded him. “Should we forget about it?” He remembered the appearance of the Lord Black reaper scolding him before and telling him not to bully the weak. He said: what’s the point of being better than the second last person and not to be a coward who was short-sighted. That he should set his goal posts further and defeat the top ranking person.
But this golden light is really thick….
The next second, Lord Black Reaper snorted and there was no expression on the handsome face: “How do you know this is the neighbouring ghost official’s territory??”
Lian Xi: “Huh? Oh, I used the mobile phone navigation to see, I have a map on it. Uh, if you take the performance salary this month, I can also help to buy you a phone.”
The Black Reaper looked at Lian Xi’s phone: “It’s black.”
Lian Xi looked down: “The screen is automatically locked.”
But before Lian Xi had time to open the lock screen, he heard the solemn and firm voice of Lord Black Reaper drifting in the cool night breeze. “It’s broken.”
Lian Xi paused.
In the vast green fields, the Black and White reaper of SuZhou City looked at each other.
Lian Xi smiled: “You’re right, it’s broken.”
Pa-da, the phone was turned off and he threw it into his pocket.
WuXi?
What WuXi?
Don’t talk nonsense!
The night is dazzling and the sky is pitch black in all directions.
The frogs croaked in the fields in late summer and the cool breeze in the early autumn night blew the corners of the black reaper’s clothes and ruffled the hair on the white reaper’s forehead.
The night in the countryside is very different from that in the city. Large areas of the land were pitch black with only rows of farm houses shining with lights.
Lian Xi thought it was difficult to find a lonely ghost who had gone for reincarnation in such a place. He didn’t expect that as soon as he walked towards the row of farm houses, he heard a deafening and tragic-sounding music blaring.
He shook his heart and looked in the direction the music had come from.
He saw one of the farmer’s houses had an enormous white wreath at the front of the entrance. In the middle of the wreath was a stark black character which read “Liu”.
The music that was blaring from the stereo was piercing and sad-sounding. Friends and relatives sat together, crying constantly.
“Dad, how could you just leave like that, what do you want us to do ah!”
***
Chapter 30
When Lian Xi and Lie Chen went downstairs, it was sunset and the sky was full of the colors of sunset.
As the sky was getting dark, the light-sensitive street lamps on the street also lit up.
Lian Xi looked down at the white reaper record in his hand, wondering whether it was an illusion. After the Black Reaper glued back the torn pages of the ghost performance rankings of the month, he inexplicably felt that the three big characters that said “Reaper Record” in Song typeface on the cover became more vivid and bright. The entire reaper record instantly had an extra layer of presence about it.
It used to be sold for 50 cents, but now the price has gone up to one dollar.
It really was the change of the century.
The two black and white reapers of SuZhou always go out to catch ghosts at 12 o’clock midnight. This is not only because ghosts only appear at night but because Lian Xi will broadcast live at 8 o’clock in the evening until 12 o’clock midnight.
But today, he asked for leave.
Not for any other reason, just because he wanted to be an exemplary ghost official.
Lian Xi looked at Lie Chen seriously: “Lord Black Reaper, where should we go to catch ghosts today?” Lian Xi then thought about it and put forward a reliable suggestion: “Yesterday we went to the high-tech district, the day before yesterday we went to WuZhen, how about today we go to some of the small townships below SuZhou City to have a look?”
Golden… ahem, he means ghosts, weren’t just everywhere to be found.
Everyday people died in all sorts of places but there were not many ghosts who linger in the world of the living without reincarnating.
Everything is about sustainable development. In the past month or so, the two of them have visited various places in SuZhou City. Now if they had to look further, probably it would be best to get out of the city and go to the regional towns.
However, Lord Black Reaper gently shook his head: “No.”
Lian Xi: “?”
Lie Chen opened his black reaper record and gently moved his finger to the performance list.
“Heaven and earth has its path but hell hath no door!” {I translated this differently before.. But changed it to this now based on something that happens later.}
“Return!”
The next second, Lian Xi saw a faint golden light pierce through the paper and fly through the air. The golden light is only about the thickness of a human hair. Although it was dim now, if you didn’t look carefully you still wouldn’t be able to see it. The thin line pointed straight to the south and Lie Chen nodded in satisfaction, and said: “Let’s follow it, it’s pointing towards a ghost.”
Lian Xi was stunned.
The two walked for a while.
Lian Xi: “Lord Black Reaper, the reaper record has this function? How come I didn’t know before?”
Lie Chen: “Your reaper record was incomplete before.”
Lian Xi: “…Last month we hunted ghosts, how come you didn’t use this function?”
Lie Chen: “I used it.”
Lian Xi: “?” Then why didn’t I see it!
Lie Chen glanced at him: “You were still in your probation period.”
The implication: You were absent from work for more than ten years, who knows what kind of lazy and useless White Reaper you are? I’ll hide it for now and review it again after the probation period.
Lian Xi was speechless.
However, after a while Lian Xi suddenly remembered something: “The month that I ran into you on the street and you said you caught five ghosts and I had caught two?”
President Lie calmly withdrew his gaze and strode forward.
Lian Xi: “…”
I was thinking how come you could find so many lonely ghosts within a few hours! Are you still human, this is called cheating!
And not only did you cheat, you also showed off! You also looked down on me!
Shameful!
Lian Xi only stopped his cursing when Lord Black Reaper indifferently said: “Hey”.
The two looked at each other.
Lie Chen raised his eyebrows: Scolding me again?
Lian Xi smiled: Lord Black Reaper has boundless mana and he is greater than the gods.
With the map navigation function of the restored reaper record, half an hour later, the two successfully defeated a ghost.
Because the ghosts were collected by the two together, the names of the ghosts appeared on both reaper certificates but the performance can only be counted as one.
Lian Xi opened the performance rankings and frowned: “This ghost is only worth 50 points.”
The first lonely wild ghost to be defeated today was a programmer who committed suicide by jumping off a building. Obviously he had jumped to his death but he didn’t realize he was already dead. With sparse hair and glasses, he kept repeating the process of running upstairs, jumping downstairs, running upstairs and then jumping downstairs. He kept muttering: “@# $!@ #$!……”
Lian Xi didn’t understand the contents of his mutterings. It was probably some type of messy code.
Lian Xi looked at Lie Chen: “Lord Black Reaper, I have never paid attention to the points of each ghost before.”
Previously, he’d only ghost hunted to increase favorability points of the Black Reaper and rub a little golden light off him. So he hadn’t cared about the points. Besides, at the time Lian Xi’s performance ranking pages were torn out so he had no idea how much gold was involved in collecting ghosts. He thought for a while then asked: “Every time we defeat a ghost, no matter what the situation is, are they always worth 50 points?”
Lie Chen’s eyes were deep and he slowly looked over.
Was there some kind of situation? Lian Xi repeated his question: “Or is that different ghosts give different points?”
Lie Chen’s voice was calm: “This question.”
Lian Xi: “Huh?”
Lie Chen: “You can find out for yourself.”
Lian Xi “?”
Lie Chen: “It’s different but there is no pattern. Sometimes it is more, sometimes it is less.” After a pause, Lord Black Reaper deliberately added, seemingly casually: “I don’t look at it very much so I’m not very clear on it.”
Huh? Don’t you hold the reaper record 24 hours a day and read it back to front?
In the past, Lian Xi didn’t understand the Black Reaper. Why did he hold the reaper record every day, were there flowers growing on it? Now he understands that Lord Black Reaper was looking at the performance rankings!
However he didn’t think about this topic much further because Lian Xi suddenly had a revelation! He got it, it was just like those two little devils: the golden light and the red light, doing good things didn’t necessarily mean a golden light and doing bad things didn’t necessarily mean a red light.
However after thinking about it for a while, Lian Xi said: “This point system definitely has a pattern.”
The gaze of Lie Chen swept over and he didn’t disguise his shock: You actually figured that out?
The handsome and elegant black-haired young man (LX) rubbed his chin with his hand and analyzed: “First of all, there are a total of 25 cities on the performance rankings. Except for ShangHai, which is a municipality directly under the central government, the others are strictly classified according to prefecture-level city standards. JiangSu, ZheJiang and ShangHai. Although the twenty-five cities are definitely different, the gao isn’t too large. I’m not talking about the economic gap but the number of people who die every day. Maybe ShangHai has a large population and so more people die every day. So ShangHai City’s ghost official ranks third.”
Lian Xi continued quietly: “The most unfair thing in the world is how a person is born, and the most fair is how they die. Just enlarge the sample to a city with a population of several million. Unless there are natural or man-made disasters, the difference in the number of deaths per day shouldn’t be too big. But,” Lian Xi opened the Reaper Record
and pointed to WenZhou’s ghost official who ranked first: “32,752 points. And us,” his fingers went down. “1943 points. The difference is a full fifteen times!”
Lie Chen narrowed his eyes: “What do you mean?”
Lian Xi put away the reaper record: “They must have cheated or at least they have a special skill or method to maximise their performance points.”
Let’s not joke around here. This was real gold involved here… cough, he meant real professionalism. It wasn’t doing business.
Everyone in the entire country knew people in WenZhou were good at doing business. However there is no reason why WenZhou should have so many ghosts!
Lian Xi and Lie Chen both got up every day and went out to catch ghosts diligently. It can be said that they haven’t lost a day, but they have worked hard for more than half a month and only gotten 1943 points. That might have sounded okay on it’s own, but all they had their heads to look at the other person:
30,000 points!
Lian Xi: “Even if my reaper record can guide me to ghosts and you and I catch ghosts separately, that only means our individual performance should be 1-2 times more than it is now. So we should be able to reach six or seven thousand points. But not this. It definitely won’t reach 30,000.”
Six to seven thousand and thirty thousand, there is a qualitative difference.
Since the number of people that die every day should be similar between the two districts, that meant that the lonely ghosts that were sent to reincarnation every day should also be similar.
It’s impossible for there to be four to five times more people dying in WenZhou than SuZhou City. That would cause ripples in society and it definitely couldn’t be hidden.
“There is some trick here, there is definitely a trick.” Lian Xi thought angrily. If he doesn’t solve this trick, he won’t be able to ever earn a million a month in his life.”
Lie Chen: “Maybe it has something to do with the guilding golden light.”
Lian looked up at him carefully.
Lie Chen: “This golden light is thick and thin. Every time it gets thicker, you get more points. When it’s thin, you get less points.”
Didn’t you say you didn’t observe the points? Lian Xi was surprised and then said: “How many gold threads can I see at one time?”
Lie Chen: “Two threads?” Without further ado, the two opened their own reaper records.
“Heaven and earth has its path but hell hath no door!”
“Return!”
The next second, two golden rays of light swished out of the reaper records, one south and one north, flying in two directions.
It stands to reason that they, being two soldiers, should now separate and each chase a beam of golden light. But under the bright street light, Lian Xi and Lie Chen were silent. SuZhou City’s Black and White Reaper both open their eyes wide, staring in astonishment at the golden light flying out of Lian Xi’s white reaper record.
This golden light…
Was actually as thick as a baby’s arm!
Compared with this, the golden light on the black reaper record was simply a tree branch!
Was there still an option?
Lian Xi: “Shall we go together?”
Lie Chen: “Let’s go.”
Without hesitation, the two directly got into a taxi and followed the golden light’s direction.
Lian Xi originally thought that WenZhou’s ghost official, as well as Yan City’s ghost official, were cheating and had discovered some special skill for earning performance points. But now it seems there might be another possibility. Maybe some people are just born with the luck of an Emperor and can select an SSR thick golden light each time.
But…
Lian Xi lowered his head to observe the reaper record.
Is this guiding golden light really just completely random?
***
The taxi drove quickly on the airport highway.
They are driving in the direction of ShuoFang Airport which is located in the north of SuZhou City.
ShuoFang Airport is the largest civil airport in the southern part of JiangSu Province. Its full name is SuNan ShuoFang Airport. It is located in ShuoFang Town, to the south of WuXi. But this airport is very close to SuZhou City, not more than 20 kilometers away.
Originally, Lian Xi thought that this golden light was only pointing in the direction of ShuoFang Airport and did not really cross the border between SuZhou City and WuXi. Unexpectedly, the car drove further and further north. Lian Xi turned on the phone map and kept navigating, so he watched the golden light pass straight through the boundary between the two cities and then… came to the boundary of WuXi!
Lian Xi: “…”
Of course, President Lie didn’t know what Lian Xi was thinking at the moment. He also didn’t know that he had left SuZhou City and arrived in Wuxi.
Just as soon as they entered the boundary of Wuxi, the golden light quickly dissipated, but fortunately they had already seen what they needed to see. Before the golden light disappeared, it pointed to the junction of the two cities.
It is a small village on the boundary of WuXi.
The taxi driver said in authentic Wu dialect: “You want to go this way? You have to enter the village.”
Lian Xi: “It’s okay, you can let us down at the entrance of the village.”
The driver: “No problem.”
Soon, the car stopped at the intersection leading to the village entrance that the golden light was pointing at.
Lian Xi and Lie Chen got out of the car, the master took their money. The front of the car turned and then drove back to SuZhou City.
A stern and tall man got out of the car and frowned slightly as he looked at the small village in front of him.
The golden light is gone, how can he find the ghost?
It was the first time that Lie Chen encountered a situation where the golden light didn’t lead directly to the ghost and actually disappeared first.
Lie Chen walked forward randomly. Suddenly, he turned his head and raised an eyebrow: “Huh?”
Lian Xi was still standing there.
Lian Xi said quietly: “I think I probably know why the golden light suddenly disappeared…”
Lie Chen: “Why?”
Lian Xi: “Because we’ve stepped into WuXi’s territory now.”
Lie Chen: “So?”
ian Xi took a deep breath: “So… this should be regarded as WuXi’s ghost official’s job?”
Lord Black Reaper only realized now.
Lian Xi reminded him. “Should we forget about it?” He remembered the appearance of the Lord Black reaper scolding him before and telling him not to bully the weak. He said: what’s the point of being better than the second last person and not to be a coward who was short-sighted. That he should set his goal posts further and defeat the top ranking person.
But this golden light is really thick….
The next second, Lord Black Reaper snorted and there was no expression on the handsome face: “How do you know this is the neighbouring ghost official’s territory??”
Lian Xi: “Huh? Oh, I used the mobile phone navigation to see, I have a map on it. Uh, if you take the performance salary this month, I can also help to buy you a phone.”
The Black Reaper looked at Lian Xi’s phone: “It’s black.”
Lian Xi looked down: “The screen is automatically locked.”
But before Lian Xi had time to open the lock screen, he heard the solemn and firm voice of Lord Black Reaper drifting in the cool night breeze. “It’s broken.”
Lian Xi paused.
In the vast green fields, the Black and White reaper of SuZhou City looked at each other.
Lian Xi smiled: “You’re right, it’s broken.”
Pa-da, the phone was turned off and he threw it into his pocket.
WuXi?
What WuXi?
Don’t talk nonsense!
The night is dazzling and the sky is pitch black in all directions.
The frogs croaked in the fields in late summer and the cool breeze in the early autumn night blew the corners of the black reaper’s clothes and ruffled the hair on the white reaper’s forehead.
The night in the countryside is very different from that in the city. Large areas of the land were pitch black with only rows of farm houses shining with lights.
Lian Xi thought it was difficult to find a lonely ghost who had gone for reincarnation in such a place. He didn’t expect that as soon as he walked towards the row of farm houses, he heard a deafening and tragic-sounding music blaring.
He shook his heart and looked in the direction the music had come from.
He saw one of the farmer’s houses had an enormous white wreath at the front of the entrance. In the middle of the wreath was a stark black character which read “Liu”.
The music that was blaring from the stereo was piercing and sad-sounding. Friends and relatives sat together, crying constantly.
“Dad, how could you just leave like that, what do you want us to do ah!”
***
