Chapter 5: The Shadows of Night

"Bang-"

Xu clumsily threw himself on the bed, let out a long exhalation, and refused to move a finger.

The conclusion of the interview with the Da Bodhi Temple Association does not mean that his work today is over.

On the contrary, it was just the real beginning of what he is doing today.

After all, Jianghuai City TV is only a municipal TV station, and he, a photojournalist who entered the camera department when he was hired, could never just be in charge of photography.

After only three months of joining, he was forcibly assigned a choreographer job, and occasionally had to participate in some trivial matters in other departments, the work content was complicated and unclear, so that he would always be extremely busy, and there was no possibility of "only working hard with a camera on your back, and you can easily drink tea at other times" that he fantasized about before joining the company.

Take today as an example, after he and Ji Yan finished their on-site interview and filming work in Baolian Mountain, they only had time to buy a boxed lunch on the road, and then they had to rush back to the TV station and start post-processing various materials.

Dealing with today's video, this is his job, but the ensuing copywriting processing was not his job originally, but because the current participants in this topic are only him and Ji Yan, they were also stuffed to him.

It stands to reason that Xu Zhuo could go to Ji Yan to complain, or directly push away these jobs that do not belong to him, but seeing that Ji Yan was so busy that he didn't even have time to eat a box lunch, he couldn't bear to say these words, so he had to continue to do it silently.

Of course, the reason why he chose to accept it was also deliberately to hone himself through these jobs.

Xu Zhuo has always agreed with a sentence - if young people do not suffer while they are young, then they will inevitably suffer more when they are no longer young in the future.

Therefore, not only has he not let go of photography and photography, but he has not refused to participate in other work at the TV station, hoping to hone himself more and improve his ability through these jobs.

Jianghuai TV is just a municipal TV station, and he never thought of taking this place as his destination.

But even if you think about it, the physical and mental exertion is still real.

Today he was busy until nine o'clock in the evening, and by the time he got home, he had a casual dinner, took a shower, and cleaned up, it was already past ten o'clock.

Thinking that he would have to get up at half past seven tomorrow morning, Xu Zhuo gave up the idea of getting up and surfing the Internet, and lay directly on the bed without planning to get up.

But after lying like this for a while, he still did not feel sleepy.

The scene that happened at the temple fair at the Great Bodhi Temple kept circling in his mind, making his heart full of doubts.

What is that weird black cloud that doesn't look like a good road?

What is the golden light emanating from the master's body?

Why can't anyone else see this situation, but only he can see it?

It is very likely that Master Zhenru said that he had Huigen and wanted to accept him as an apprentice because he realized that he could see the confrontation between him and Heiyun.

But what is Huigen?

Xu Zhuo can be sure that he has no interest in Buddhism, and he has not shown any talent for Buddhism since he was a child, so as the master said Huigen, he may only mean that he can see things that others can't.

The question is...... What exactly is this ability? Something to do with supernatural forces?

While thinking about these questions, Xu Zhuo had another cloud of doubts hovering in his heart.

He can clearly remember that before he went to the Great Bodhi Temple, he once went to the back mountain of Baolian Mountain for a walk, but he always had a strange feeling, as if he had missed something in the middle, but he couldn't remember anything, and he couldn't dig out any missing memories in his mind.

Xu Zhuo thought about these problems while tossing and turning on the bed, but in the end, because he was too tired, his eyelids closed and he fell into a deep sleep.

The clock quickly passed twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and the downtown area of Jianghuai City was still bright and noisy, but the area where Xu Zhuo's rented house was already quiet and dark.

In the quiet rented bedroom, a trace of black gas suddenly seeped in from the window, and then gradually converged in one place.

At first, it condensed into a clump, and then as the black qi became more and more, this black qi gradually expanded, staggering, and finally formed a vague human form.

The figure condensed by the black qi shook twice, revealing two narrow gaps in the place of the head, and two more intense black qi were projected from it, pointing straight at Xu Zhuo who was sleeping on the bed.

"Truly—"

The humanoid black qi suddenly let out a shrill and ugly low laugh, and then pounced on Xu Zhuo along the two thicker black qi together, looking at the posture, it was like a hungry tiger pounced.

Seeing that the black qi was about to pounce on Xu Zhuo's body, a little light purple light suddenly appeared on Xu Zhuo's forehead and eyebrows, and a small, pale golden thing emerged from it.

As soon as it left Xu Zhuo's forehead, this pale golden thing quickly grew in size, directly expanding into an unfolded scroll, more than a meter long and nearly half a meter wide.

When the human figure composed of black gas saw the lilac light flashing, it already seemed to be frightened, and directly stopped its movements, and when the scroll unfolded, it let out an ultra-high-frequency, extremely shrill scream, shrunk into a ball, and flew out of the window.

However, the scroll was just one sheet and one close, and the black qi was completely enveloped inside, and then it shrank to a very small size, re-entered Xu Zhuo's eyebrows, and disappeared.

As the lilac glow faded, everything returned to normal as if nothing had happened.

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Early the next morning, Xu Zhuo walked into the office, and was not surprised to find that Ji Yan was already lying on the seat and was working seriously.

"Hey, Ji Yan, it's so early today." Xu Zhuo said hello.

Ji Yan snorted and didn't look back.

Xu Zhuo glanced at the desktop beside Ji Yan, and found that the glass of milk placed there was already completely cold at this time, sighed, picked up the glass of milk, and walked to the corner of the office.

This corner is the dining corner of the office of the TV station's news department, where five microwave ovens are placed to heat the staff who bring their own meals.

Xu Zhuo threw Ji Yan's cup of milk and the soy milk in his hand into it, and just after setting the time, a figure squeezed over.

"Hehe, Xu Zhuo, I heard that you and Ji Yan went to the Great Bodhi Temple of Baolian Mountain to participate in the temple fair yesterday?"

Hearing this voice, Xu Zhuo couldn't help frowning, then turned his head and responded in a flat tone: "Yes, what's wrong?" ”

"What's wrong?" The man raised his voice sharply. "I've heard that you two actually wanted to make trouble at the temple fair, and you were almost arrested by the police!"

Xu Zhuo immediately sank his face and lowered his voice.

"Wang Sicheng, can you not be like a middle-aged woman who likes to tell right and wrong? It's a shame, you know? ”

The one known as Wang Sicheng was a young man who was two years older than Xu Zhuo in appearance, and when he heard Xu Zhuo's rebuttal, he immediately sneered.

"What? Did I say yes? Weak heart? Let me tell you, there were thousands of people who attended the Great Bodhi Temple meeting yesterday! So many people have seen with their own eyes what you and Ji Yan have done, you can't deny it. There were many of our colleagues present at the time, and if what you did was reported by other peers, it would be a scandal for our TV station! ”

Looking at Wang Sicheng's triumphant face, Xu Zhuo couldn't wait to slap the piece of pancake he was still holding in his hand directly on his face.

This guy hated Ji Yan because he couldn't pursue Ji Yan at first, and now he is targeting Ji Yan everywhere, and by the way, he also hates Xu Zhuo, who often teams up with Ji Yan to appear on shows, and seizes every opportunity to ridicule, which is really annoying.

If you were based on Xu Zhuo's temper in college, I was afraid that I would have pressed him to the ground and beaten him up, but now I am afraid of the influence in the stage, so I can only endure it.

"Scandal? Is it up to you to call the shots? Xu Zhuo snorted coldly, turned his face away, and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

Seeing that Xu Zhuo ignored himself, Wang Sicheng became even more excited, turned around and came to Xu Zhuo again, and continued to sneer: "Xu Zhuo, don't blame me for not reminding you, there will be a quarterly assessment in the platform next month, if there is any scandal now, then don't talk about changing to a regular job, even if you can keep this job, it will be a problem." Ji Yan is a top journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, don't worry about this, you, a student at an ordinary communication university, aren't you worried? ”

For the first time in his life, Xu felt that the time for the microwave oven to heat up was too slow, so he had to endure Wang Sicheng's harsh sound here.

"Thank you for your concern. But before you care about me, worry about yourself. Your advertising department isn't doing well this quarter, is it? ”

Wang Sicheng's face was suffocated, and he was speechless for a while.

Although Jianghuai TV station is said to be a provincial capital TV station, it is a cut above other prefecture-level city TV stations, but it is precisely because it is located in the provincial capital that it has to face great pressure from Jiangnan TV station.

In terms of various resources, Jiangnan Province is obviously more inclined to Jiangnan Provincial TV Station, and the same is true in policy, so that Jianghuai TV Station is always a little aggrieved in the cracks.

This kind of grievance is reflected in other departments, but it is very obvious when it is reflected in the advertising department.

Any advertiser who wants to advertise in a TV station must give priority to a larger TV station with a wider audience, so if you really want to pick in Jianghuai City, then the first choice must be Jiangnan TV Station, not Jianghuai City TV Station.

Therefore, the most difficult department for Jianghuai TV station is the advertising department where Wang Sicheng is located.

In the first quarter of this year, the performance of the advertising department was still not satisfactory, and the advertising department was under great pressure from top to bottom.

"Humph! Our advertising department will have big customers settled in soon, and you don't need to worry about us! Wang Sicheng dropped a sentence, took out only half of the hot soy milk, and left angrily.

"Big customer?" Xu Zhuo sneered, shook his head, picked up the hot milk and soy milk, and walked back.

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