Chapter 11: Haunted Streets
Fang Dalei's home is also in Nandu, just on Hehui Street. This is a well-known food street in the southern metropolis, and most of the shops on the street are all kinds of catering enterprises, from large chain restaurant giants to small snack bars, Chinese, Western, Japanese and Korean barbecue, and all kinds of food from all over the world.
After all, the government departments need an image project to highlight their political achievements, so the food street of Hehui Street came into being, and the catering business here is not only simple in various procedures, do not need to run multiple departments like doing other things, and open a restaurant here, there are certain preferential taxes.
However, it is precisely because of the large number of shops that the security here has not been very good, and it can be described as a mixture. Gangsters, petty thieves, liars, porcelain touchers, and even drinking too much and spitting everywhere, and even drinking and fighting are not uncommon.
Fang Dalei opened a detective agency in such a place, and the office mixed in a bunch of catering companies was like a little red in the greenery.
The office is located in a small two-story building facing the street, which is both an office and his residence, with a reception room on the first floor as an office space, and a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen on the second floor, which is Fang Dalei's living place. For a bachelor, this environment is already considered good.
Of course, this house was rented by Fang Dalei, in the southern metropolis where every inch of land is expensive, Hehui Street is such a famous street, even if it is a small storefront, it is not something that Fang Dalei's current net worth can afford. All his money, at most, to buy a toilet here.
The landlord's family immigrated to Canada a long time ago and left the house behind. At that time, when I rented it to Fang Dalei, I saw that he was still honest, and secondly, he also needed someone to help look at the house, so I rented the house to him at a very low price, and asked him to take care of the house while living there.
Fang Dalei returned home and was already on the sun, although he hadn't slept all night, because he was already a cultivator of the Eight Classics, his physique was very different from ordinary people, and he didn't feel tired at all, but his stomach inevitably rumbled.
After all, he has not yet cultivated to the stage of Bigu, and the energy he needs for daily life still needs to be drawn from food, and it is precisely because he has become a cultivator that the amount of food is greater than before.
And cultivators are not uneaten, compared to ordinary people, when there is no weather aura to replenish energy, they have a greater demand for food, and eat more finely, after all, you read those novels, even the gods and Buddhas in the sky still have to eat spiritual fruits and spiritual rice.
Whether it is a god or an immortal, or a human or a demon, he has a desire to eat and drink, which is the way of heaven and morality, and it will not change because of his different identity.
Fang Dalei simply freshened up at home, came to a familiar beef potsticker shop downstairs, and in the dumbfounded eyes of the boss, he ate a pound of beef potstickers alone, and drank two large bowls of beef vermicelli soup with ingredients.
Fang Dalei can eat is famous on this street, but in the past, he could eat it like half a catty of potstickers, at most a bowl of beef soup, but now he has eaten twice the amount before, which really surprised the boss.
"I said Da Lei, are you a starving ghost reincarnated? These two potstickers are five, and you eat fifty alone, and I usually have three or five people here, and you don't eat as much as you alone. Look at your little body, it doesn't look like it can fit so many things. "Because they are old neighbors, everyone is acquaintances, and Fang Dalei is usually very easy-going, so the boss doesn't have so many scruples when he jokes.
Fang Dalei listened to the boss's words, smiled, and didn't take the conversation, because he didn't know how to explain the sudden increase in the amount of food, so he changed the topic: "It's not good to eat too much, don't you earn more if you eat more." I said boss, I haven't been at home for the past few days, is there any news here on the street? ”
As soon as he heard Fang Dalei ask this, the gossip boss's attention was really diverted, and he patted his thigh and said, "Hey, Da Lei, you don't know, something really happened to us and Huijie recently." Recently, many businesses have reported that all the unused meals that have been stored will deteriorate after overnight, not that they are rancid or moldy, but that they have become like the essence has been lost, and it tastes like chewing wax. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Fang Dalei asked in surprise. It's October now, and the summer in the southern city is generally longer, and it's still the tail of summer. It's just that although the weather is not cool, it is not to the point of being hot, especially at night, when the autumn breeze blows, the temperature decreases quite quickly, Fang Dalei does not believe that the food will spoil after one night, and the boss said that the food will become the same as chewing wax, which is worth pondering.
"Yes! It's really like this, everyone is saying that this place is haunted! Ha ha! It's a shame that they can figure it out, what a ghost! I've grown so big, and I really haven't seen a ghost, a demon. I am a staunch proletarian revolutionary, an atheist. The boss laughed as he spoke.
Fang Dalei glanced at the boss with disdain: "You are still a staunch proletarian revolutionary." Just like your bear? Okay, boss, don't talk nonsense with you, and then pack me half a catty of potstickers to take away. ”
"Okay!" The boss quickly packed potstickers for Fang Dalei, and Fang Dalei paid the money and returned to the office with the potstickers.
The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, although the boss doesn't think it's a ghost, but Fang Dalei, who has become a trainee of the Lord of Yama and has obtained the inheritance of the underworld, knows that this ten ** is really haunted.
Although Fang Dalei's inheritance was incomplete, there were many things he hadn't learned yet, and he still knew some basic knowledge.
Ghosts, like humans, also have a craving for food, and of course, they like to enjoy incense more.
Good incense is not only as simple as satisfying the appetite of ghosts, but can also be used as a tonic to enhance their strength. Generally speaking, ghosts and gods and Buddhas compete for this incense.
It's just that the incense of ghosts is generally burned by relatives and friends, or some people cast spells and worship, and the number is limited, and it will not be as disgusted as the incense offered to the gods and Buddhas.
But no matter how vigorous the incense for the gods and Buddhas is, the ghosts will not dare to grab it. Grab incense from the gods and Buddhas? Your birthday boy hanged herself, isn't it long?
And generally speaking, the incense offered to the gods and Buddhas generally carries incense wishing power, to put it bluntly, this kind of wishing power is the wish of mortals, what they want to achieve, or why should mortals give incense to gods and Buddhas in vain?
This kind of wishing power gods and Buddhas can sort it out, ignore it, ghosts don't have this ability, for incense, they are all directly sucked, absorbing the power of some friends' blessings of incense, absorbing too much ordinary mortals with the nature of the wish power incense, that is to be contaminated with cause and effect, the soul is scattered.
Therefore, ghosts generally like to enjoy the pure power of incense, and when the incense is insufficient, they will also turn to food in order to meet their spiritual needs. Note that this is talking about spiritual enjoyment, not material needs, because ghosts do not go hungry.
However, future generations will continue to sacrifice to their ancestors, offering delicious sacrifices to their ancestors, or what their ancestors loved to eat during their lifetime, for them to enjoy.
It's just that ghosts eat differently than people, they use sucking up the essence of the food, and even if the rest of the food looks intact, because the essence inside is lost, it does taste like chewing wax.
"It looks like it's really haunted, but according to the boss's description, this shouldn't be a ghost, at most it's a glutton, and it shouldn't do too much harm to people. But people have roads, ghosts cross the ghost road, since it has been hung up, it shouldn't be dangling in the sun! Forget it, it has something to do with me, I'm just a trainee, these things should be handed over to the real card to deal with, I'll practice with peace of mind and wait for the task! Fang Dalei sat on the swivel chair and muttered to himself.
Unexpectedly, before the words fell, a familiar voice sounded in his head: Ding!
"it! No way! You can't talk about people during the day, you can't talk about ghosts at night, you're afraid of something! Fang Dalei wailed.
"The second apprenticeship task was released, and an unknown ghost appeared on Hehui Street, so trainee No. 9527 was asked to go and find out the situation and learn about the ghost thing. Quest completion conditions: unknown, quest completion reward: unknown, quest time limit: 72 hours. Before the mission was issued, Bingbing's voice became cold.
"Your sister! I said Bingbing, I caught a demon yesterday, and today I was called to catch a ghost, so forget it, everything is unknown, and, what do you know about it, don't prompt me, what do you tell me to do! Fang Dalei complained to Bingbing who had already emerged from the void.
"There's no way, the task was issued by Tiandao, I just announced it on my behalf, and I don't have any authority to modify it. Isn't it better to be unclear, divergent missions, it's time to test your abilities! Bingbing replied with a smile.