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Published at 19th of January 2022 03:21:29 PM


Chapter 42

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Early in the morning, WuXi’s little ghost official took the high-speed rail and rushed to SuZhou overnight.

After Lian Xi rented the car, he picked him up at the train station. Without a word, the three of them got on the expressway to JinHua HengDian.

As the car steadily drove onto the highway, Lian Xi took the time to ask, “What the hell is going on?”

Perhaps because he hadn’t slept all night, so Tang Zi’s eyes had large black circles. He looked solemn and said, “Actually, I already felt like something was wrong yesterday. My colleague, WuXi’s Black Reaper, she is a fox demon who has cultivated for more than 100 years. Her name is Hu XiaoLi. The name on the human ID is Hu XiaoLi {Written different characters, the characters of her real name is pretty much “Fox Demon” but her ID name sounds more normal.}. A hundred years ago, she became a Black Reaper during the Republic of China era but her magical power is not high. She’s always been a bit of a lax type of person.”

Tang Zi couldn’t help showing a worried expression on her face when he thought of his missing colleague.

He really was worried.

A fox demon who has been cultivating for a hundred years sounds very powerful. But in fact, he knew that Hu XiaoLi’s powers were all just minor tricks for show.

“It was actually an accident that Hu XiaoLi was able to become the Black Reaper. She had just transformed into a human form and came to the human world. It was 1915. She came down the mountain and went to a very popular restaurant at the time to try it since it had a famous eel dish. Who knew that she would happen to meet a teacher who was being chased by a group of assassins. Hu XiaoLi saved his life. That teacher was the local Black Reaper at the time.

“That Black Reaper was seriously injured, although he had powers, however he was a human being after all. He was also a revolutionary and has made many enemies. He had escaped many times before but that time he didn’t manage to escape. Before he died, he passed the position of the Black Reaper to Hu XiaoLi and Hu XiaoLi became Black Reaper by mistake. She doesn’t have that capability at all. “

The little boy was very worried about his colleague’s situation and he subconsciously talked very fast: “Hu XiaoLi has been eating, drinking and having fun for more than a hundred years, but she has lived a long time and has many antique treasures. She relied on those antiques and earned a lot of money in the last century. She randomly invested in a couple of people and they all turned out to be successes. So she is very rich and has always been very good to me.”

His colleagues often didn’t do any work but this kid has never blamed her. Because he also knew that Hu XiaoLi was right.

Both of them are incompetent ghost officials who got their jobs haphazhardly. Even if they put their lives on the line and worked themselves to the bone, the best they could do would probably be tenth place. Under normal circumstances they would be in the bottom five. Since that was the case it was better to enjoy life and not tire themselves out so much. So their only goal was to not to be the very bottom.

Tang Zi raised his head and looked at Lian Xi who was sitting in the driver’s seat: “I found out that she was missing because the star she recently liked was on a hot search yesterday morning.” After a pause, he continued: “Hu XiaoLi likes a male star named Lin SiQi. For the past six months, she has been chasing him everywhere and recently chased him to HengDian. I saw this male star actually was on the second most popular search on Weibo yesterday, and he was scolded. At that time I messaged Hu XiaoLi to tell her that her idol was scolded but she didn’t reply to me on WeChat.

“After waiting for a day, I found out that she still hadn’t replied to me and her idol being scolded was continuously in the top 10 trending topics. At that time, I knew something was wrong. Hu XiaoLi chased many celebrities before and she really likes pretending to be a normal fan and going out star chasing with other fans. But if the idol she likes is scolded, she will definitely spend money to remove the hot search or at least hire a water navy to get back at whomever was scolding them. But she didn’t do it this time or respond. I waited until today and so for two days, I’ve been calling her and she hasn’t answered her phone. She must have been in an accident!”

After hearing the little ghost official’s words, Lian Xi thought about it for a while and suddenly he remembered something.

The little ghost official’s remarks reminded him of Su Jiao. Last month, Su Jiao suddenly returned to his hometown because he couldn’t get in touch with his uncle.

Having said that, it had also been a long time since he had seen Su Jiao and he didn’t know what happened to him either…

Lian Xi’s thoughts were pulled back and he repeated his words. “If it’s been two days without contact, then something must be really wrong.” This wasn’t Su Jiao’s uncle. At the time, Su Jiao couldn’t contact his uncle for merely half a day before rushing home. Hu XiaoLi hadn’t been in contract for two days.

In today’s society, it is very dangerous to be unable to contact a person for two days and two nights. Nine out of ten, there was an accident.

Tang Zi was worried: “Yes. She is so stupid, could she have been caught and eaten?”

Lian Xi raised his head and looked at his colleague sitting in the back seat of the car through the rearview mirror: “Lie Chen, do you think?”

SuZhou City’s Black Reaper was holding his mobile phone and it was unknown what he was playing. After hearing Lian Xi’s words, it took a few seconds before he raised his head and said softly: “En?”

Lian Xi: “What do you think may have happened to WuXi’s Black Reaper?”

Lie Chen: “WuXi’s Black Reaper? Who? “

Lian Xi: “…”

Tang Zi: “…” 

The little ghost official turned his head and looked at Lian Xi seriously: “Just let us go the two of us.”

Lian Xi said earnestly, “His power is very strong.” .”

The little official immediately yielded.

At this moment, the person who was obsessed with his mobile phone in the back seat of the car curled his lips and suddenly snorted.

The two White Reapers in the front seat looked back to look at him.

Oh, he was snorting at the phone and not us.

Rubbish mobile phone, ruining reaper youth!

……

Understanding the general course of the matter, Lian Xi followed the navigation and drove while analyzing: “There are pretty much two situations which could have happened. Number one, your colleague encountered an accident in the living world. You just said that she is not powerful and that her magical ability is low. Then let me guess, is her strength equal to yours?” 

The kid nodded, “Only a little bit stronger than me.”

Lian Xi: “In that case, then she has a chance she may have been kidnapped by a human. You said that she is rich, maybe she has exposed her wealth.” 

The little ghost official thought for a while: “Although she likes to pretend to be an ordinary fan and mix in with ordinary fans and doesn’t reveal any specialities, it is true that she might have accidentally revealed her wealth and caught someone’s eye.”

Lian Xi nodded slightly: “Well, that’s the first possibility. This situation is both not too good and not too bad. First of all, it’s not that dangerous. I believe a fox demon is not so easy to kill right? However if it is a crime belonging to the living world, we can only report to the police and ask them for help. We can’t do anything ourselves. The second possibility is that this matter involves spirits and ghosts or human cultivators. Although it will be more dangerous, we should be able to think of a way to deal with it ourselves.” His voice paused and Lian Xi concluded: “Anyway, let’s go to HengDian first. We don’t know where Hu XiaoLi went missing in the end but at least we can find out where the star she liked was filming.”

The black car drove very quickly and the white reaper in the front seat concentrated on discussing countermeasures and was ready to meet the powerful enemy. The Black Reaper in the back seat also bowed his head intently to fight against an enemy… It was another fiasco, and Black Reaper’s face suddenly collapsed.

“Hn!”

Lian Xi raised his head to look at Lie Chen.

Lie Chen also just raised his head and the eyes of the two people met in the reflection of the mirror.

Putting his phone aside, the man looked up at his colleague. He finally took the time to ask, “What’s happened? Where are we going now? Are we going to earn points?”

Is earning points all you know about?

Thinking this in his heart, Lian Xi’s facial expression remained the same: “We’re almost there. Hopefully it has nothing to do with earning points.”

It was a hot autumn day with a bright, fiery sun. The car drove off the highway and officially reached HengDian.

HengDian was located in DongYang District, JinHua City, ZheJiang Province.

This small town was just one of thousands of similar towns in ZheJiang Province but because of the famous “HengDian Film and Television City”, its name is well known by people all over the country.

After getting off the highway and turning onto the national highway and driving for a few kilometers, the three finally arrived at HengDian Film and Television City.

There was no doubt that if they wanted to find the last trace of Hu XiaoLi, then they were right to come here. She came to chase stars and the place where her idol was filming was probably where she was.

The three got out of the car.

Three reapers belonging to two cities. One is a powerful evil spirit (to be verified) who has just climbed up from the underworld and another was a junior high school student who had no life experience who swore in the car but after getting off didn’t know where to put his hands.

Lian Xi sighed. “I’ll go buy tickets.” 

The little ghost official said in surprise: “Tickets?”

Lian Xi said, “Yes, this place is open to tourists. Once I’ve bought entrance tickets, we can go inside to take a look.”

Little ghost official: “Oh okay, let’s go with your plan.” After speaking, the little ghost official flashed his white teeth and grinned.

Lian Xi glanced at the little ghost official and his colleague.

Alas, these two wastes of life. If we don’t listen to me, who can we listen to?

Everyone needed to be compared. Lian Xi always thought that his living ability was already very poor. For example, compared to his college roommate Chen Kai, his EQ can be considered laughably low and could never be compared with the other person’s graceful dance moves. However when standing beside Lie Chen and Tang Zi…

When a bunch of short children wanted to select a General, he was the one who stood out.

After buying the tickets, the three entered the studio together.

Perhaps because of the National Day holiday, many tourists come to the movie studio. While queuing, bystanders quietly looked at the three people from time to time.

It was the little ghost official’s first time travelling long distance. He was looking around curiously. The black reaper was gazing down fixedly at his phone and didn’t care about the gaze of the people around him.

After a long time, a young girl with short hair ran over and whispered: “Are you famous stars? Can you sign an autograph for me?”

Lian Xi was surprised. She actually asked this? He shook his head: “We’re not, sory.”

The young girl blushed and ran away again. Not far away, she whispered to her companion angrily: “Didn’t I tell you? Why would a celebrity line up?”

“If they’re not celebrities, can’t you ask for their WeChat?”

“Ah!”

Seeing the short haired girl kept looking over at them again, Lian Xi felt his scalp go numb. Just when the young girl looked about ready to run over again, their group suddenly moved up in line and entered.

Phew.

Finally there was no more need to deal with strangers.

The next step is to find the place where Hu XiaoLi last disappeared.

Hu XiaoLi is a humble and ordinary person but her favorite star is not. Soon, the trio found out from the Internet what the star named Lin SiQi was filming recently. It was actually a Republic of China drama.

“Republic of China drama, that should be pretty easy to find. It should be filmed on the MingGuo Street of the film and television city.” Lian Xi thought. He walked to the MingGuo Street with his two silly teammates.

The MingGuo Street in HengDian World Studios is also called GuangZhou Street and Hong Kong Street.

It wasn’t actually a street but was actually a whole area. Rows of large and small houses sit in this wide area, with blue tiles and white walls and old shop plaques full of the vicissitudes of the last century. There were ancient bluestone bricks and arched columnar buildings. Visitors were surrounded by green tiles and white walls. Looking around, it looked as if they had traveled back to the last century.

Nowadays, there are not many crews filming on MingGuo Street. Right now there were only two in total.

The three of them looked around and quickly found the crew that Lin SiQi was filming with. The drama was called “Half Life Destiny”.

After the film crew rents the venue for filming, they will use fences to surround the crew and tourists and fans are not allowed to enter. Lian Xi looked from a distance and couldn’t get in at all. There were many other tourists around them, also watching.

Tourists who come to HengDian Film and Television City firstly come to see the scenes of their favorite TV series and secondly, they come to see the stars. Maybe some celebrities will come out to have a break and then they would be able to see them. 

But that was the extent of it.

They can only get here and couldn’t go any further. The same goes for Hu XiaoLi.

Lian Xi: “Let’s look around here separately to see if we can find some auras that do not belong to the living world. For example, spirits, lonely souls, wild ghosts, or traces left by XuanXiu.”

Tang Zi: “Okay! “

Lian Xi looked at his colleague. He definitely couldn’t order President Lie around. “Lie Chen, you just stay here ba.”

Lie Chen’s lips moved slightly. He originally wanted to check out the surrounds too but hearing this, he looked into Lian Xi’s calm gaze.  Lie Chen raised an eyebrow and said softly “Oh”.

Tang Zi, the little ghost on the side, suddenly followed Lian Xi’s words: “Should I buy you an orange?”

Lian Xi: “?”

Lie Chen: “?”

You stand still here and don’t move, I’ll go buy you an orange…. {This comes from a movie called “Bei Ying” and describes a scene when a father sends his son off to the train station to travel to Beijing to attend University. When the son is waiting on the platform, the dad crosses the railway to buy oranges for him. Basically is a scene describing a father’s deep love for his son. But also this sentence has come to have the popular meaning – “I am your father”.}

That’s not what I meant, it’s not, don’t talk nonsense!

Fortunately, President Lie didn’t understand orange stems and the little ghost official was just speaking casually. He didn’t actually try to teach Lie Chen any popular concepts. Lian Xi was relieved.

He and Tang Zi separated into two groups. The two of them searched for a long time along MingGuo Street. After an hour, they met up again.

Lian Xi: “I didn’t find any traces that didn’t belong to the living world, nor did I have the slightest yin energy.”

Tang Zi: “Me too.”

Suddenly, Lie Chen: “Is oranges the thing that you peeled for me last time?”

Lian Xi turned his head: “???”

Lie Chen thoughtfully said: “It was delicious, are you going to buy me some now?”

Lian Xi: “…”

Lian Xi was racking his brains and thinking about how to make President Lie dispel this idea and how to prevent President Lie, who has a mobile phone and seems to be able to surf the Internet every day, not be able to find the meaning of the orange stems. However he didn’t realize that the combination of the three of them standing together was actually very eye-catching within a crowd.

The surrounding tourists looked at them frequently, wondering if they were celebrities.

Likewise, they also attracted the attention of a special person.

When Xu Lang and his assistant walked out of the crew, their expressions were unswerving and thoughtful. When they walked into MingGuo Street, the assistant was surprised to find that there were many people watching something on the street. He craned his neck and glanced curiously.

Huh, are those two celebrities?

Perceiving the little assistant’s distraction, Xu Lang said displeased: “What are you looking at.”

“Ah, Brother Xu, there seems to be a celebrity there. I’ll go take a look…”

“A celebrity?” Xu Lang frowned and followed the line of sight of the little assistant. Suddenly his gaze froze.

On the spacious and clean street, Lian Xi was still thinking about how he could hide the truth from the Reaper who was learning to surf the Internet. Suddenly, a smiling voice came from behind him: “Lian Xi?”

He turned around in surprise and saw the person behind him.

Xu Lang walked over with his assistant. He was wearing a neatly ironed suit. He stretched out his hand and smiled slightly: “I didn’t expect to see you here.” As he said, his eyes seemed to inadvertently move to the side. Sweeping over the figures of Lie Chen and the little ghost official, he withdrew his gaze, looked at Lian Xi again and said with a smile: “Why are you here? Are you on holiday?”





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