Volume 2: Entering the Ghost Feast Section 80: Intelligence
"It's not much different from what I expected, because I started cultivating from the two extreme forms of the ancient rock python and the ear snake, the more I practiced, the more comfortable it became, and twenty-nine changes were cultivated in twelve hours, plus the changes of the ancient rock python, thirty changes were cultivated in one night, almost one-third of the python's domain, it's still good, it's not bad to chew more, and then you have to practice to know the results of cultivation, otherwise it's still on paper." After Zhang Su finished cultivating the thirtieth change, he stretched his waist with all his strength, stretched his body out, and made his body no longer so stiff, he knew that he still had a lot of things to do.
Zhang Su washed his face and brushed his teeth, so that he became a little more energetic after staying up all night, although the cultivation of the soul is not much load on the body, but after all, it is still a mortal body, just staying up late makes Zhang Su feel soreness in the joints, and Zhang Su still stayed up for two nights in a row, and the body has begun to accumulate fatigue, although this fatigue is still within a controllable range, Zhang Su still does not dare to take it too lightly, for fear that he will become a short-lived ghost.
"It's not easy, it's not easy for those who need to pay full attention when they work at night, it's all about trading their lives for money, I finally understand why there is news that people stay up late and are prone to sudden death, the night is cold, and the soul dust is rich, but it's not good for the body, people who work night shifts need to spend energy in their bodies to maintain energy, and they also need to spend energy to resist the cold, plus the soul dust is rich at night, and with too much air inhalation, it will cause a great load on the internal organs, ordinary people's bodies are weak, and they have no ability to absorb soul dust, It is really possible to die suddenly in this situation, fortunately, I have cultivated the Yuantian Gong method to assist in absorbing soul dust, plus I still have the spiritual cultivation technique of fearless distraction, and my spiritual power is not comparable to ordinary people, so that even if I haven't slept for two days and two nights in a row, I can barely support it, but what about those ordinary people who stay up late, in order to earn money for their lives, but they exchange their lives for money, I really don't know if they have made or lost. Zhang Su sighed.
Just when Zhang Su was sighing to himself, suddenly, Zhang Su's mobile phone on the bed rang.
Toot, toot, toot......
Zhang Su put down the toothbrush, rinsed his mouth, then returned to the bed, picked up the phone from the bed, pressed the answer button, and asked loudly into the phone: "Hey, who?" ”
"Boy, are you going to scare the hell out of you? Why is it so loud, I, Hu Xi. Hu Xi's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Huh? Oh, it turned out to be Brother Hu Xi, I just got up, no, I didn't sleep, a little confused. Zhang Su explained, indeed, after a night of silence, he couldn't help but amplify his voice as soon as he spoke.
"What's wrong? Got something on your mind? The apology was rejected by Miss Pu? Hu Xi smiled and asked three questions.
", we reconciled yesterday, and today we made an appointment to have dinner together to discuss the matter of partnering soul hunting." Zhang Su replied.
"That's it, no wonder you haven't slept all night, you're excited." Hu Xi smiled evilly.
"Hey, Brother Hu Xi, you are amazing, no matter what you say, it's all your reason, by the way, why did you call me so early?" Zhang Su scratched his head helplessly and asked.
"That's the case, there is a new ghost bounty in the bounty in our company, I want to call you to come to the company to take a look, if you don't have time, I can also send you the approximate content of the bounty, you can judge which way to choose." Hu Xi regained his composure and said.
"I was just going to the company to receive the bounty, what kind of ghost still needs Hu Xige, you waste a phone call?" Zhang Su asked.
"Fox on the face." Hu Xi replied.
"Wait for me, I'll be there soon!" As soon as he heard Hu Xi's answer, Zhang Su's spirit immediately rose and replied, the stock-faced fox was one of the evil ghosts who killed Lu Sen at the ghost banquet, which means that the company already had some clues about the ghost banquet, and the stock-faced fox may be the first murderer to be found, and it is also the first object that Zhang Su is ready to take revenge.
"Are you going to take the imp bounty alone?" Hu Xi asked.
"What's wrong?" Zhang asked incomprehensibly.
"Although this face-faced fox is still a junior imp, its soul power has already broken through to the middle-level imp, with the strength of your junior soul king, it is too dangerous to single out a revenant who is about to become an intermediate imp." Hu Xi analyzed.
"Then I can't let this fox imp who killed Lusengo fall into the hands of others." Zhang said anxiously.
"You come first, we'll think about the rest of the matter in the long run, if not, I'll go hunting the fox with you." Hu Xi suggested.
"Well, then I'll go first." Zhang Su agreed.
Immediately, Hu Xi hung up the phone, and Zhang Su also packed his things and prepared to leave.
Zhang Su first went to return the clothes that Qu Zhiru lent him, Qu Zhiru was not at home, so he used the key given by Qu Mo to open the door of Qu Zhiru's house, folded the clothes and put them on the sofa at Qu Zhiru's house, and then rode towards the company, speeding along the way, Zhang Su is now thinking about revenge, since there are some clues, it means that revenge for Lu Sen is hopeful.
As soon as Zhang Su came to the company, he knocked on the door of Hu Xi's secretary's office.
"It's coming." Hu Xi saw that Zhang Su had arrived at the company and greeted.
"The bounty is still there." Zhang Su asked.
"Well, I don't think you can worry, the reward of the junior imp will not be easily taken away, and the phigh-faced fox has also been rewarded before, the phigh-faced fox is too cunning, the last time the team formed a group to hunt the pweaked fox has failed, this time the reward is re-offered, there may not be someone to pick up this kind of difficult imp bounty, you can make a choice after discussing with Pu Zitong, the two of them will discuss an effective plan, and then there will be the possibility of hunting it." Hu Xi suggested.
"I don't want to involve her in the matter of revenge for Lusengo, the reward is still up to me, you don't have to worry about me, I know in my heart, I won't do blind things anymore." Zhang Su replied.
"Do you have any plans?" Hu Xi asked.
"I can't talk about the plan, it's just that I have recently cultivated a fairly good soul technique, and I vaguely have the feeling of advancing from a junior soul king to an intermediate soul king, I want to see if I can defeat a junior ghost directly with these means, don't forget that I am the one who has captured the junior ghost alone, and a junior ghost can't help me." Zhang Su is confident.
"It's true that I was shocked that you just picked up a bounty from a junior imp when you recovered, but I didn't expect you to succeed in hunting it, but the fox is not easier than the imp you hunted before, he is not only strong, but also extremely cunning, far surpassing the dinosaur imp you dealt with before." Hu Xi persuaded.
"That's right, I just need a powerful imp to help me practice, so I chose it." Zhang Su did not give up because of Hu Xi's persuasion, but replied very excitedly.
"Okay, looking at your eagerness, you're obviously a little sure, are you going to take it now? Do you want me to let Brother Jia Lei pick you up? Hu Xi pondered for a while, and finally nodded, he respected Zhang Su's choice, but asked with some anxiety.
"There's no need, even if I can't beat it, I know how to escape, I'm going to pick up the bounty, I guess I can solve it in the morning, wait for my good news." Zhang Su replied.
Hu Xi didn't say anything more, Zhang Su said goodbye to Hu Xi, accepted the reward of the face fox, and picked the reward of two ghasts by the way, and soon left the company.
The fox hides at the Times Theater in the east of the city, and Zhang Su rides his small tram towards the Times Theater.
Ten days ago, the Times Theater was holding an opera performance, on the way, an actor who was about to play was inexplicably killed on the mirror of the dressing room, no one knew why, the opera performance could only be temporarily replaced by a substitute actor, the director called the police, the front desk was a loud performance, the backstage was the investigation of the cause of death, a sad and a happy at the same time, directly let the opera director break his heart, after the performance, the entire opera team was panicked, and finally the opera troupe tour was temporarily suspended, Waiting for the results of the investigation into the dead actor, because there is no surveillance in the dressing room, the actor's death has become an unsolved mystery.
The actor who died is called Xiao Kui, according to Xiao Li, a little girl who was in the same dressing room as the dead actor, Xiao Kui came back to touch up her makeup after the first performance, waiting for the next scene, but Xiao Kui just finished making up her makeup and fell asleep on the dresser, and when she slept for about a quarter of an hour, Xiao Kui suddenly stood up, bent over and leaned forward, holding the top edge of the dresser with both hands, and made a similar funny expression towards the mirror, shaking her head with a twisted face, but no one expected, In the next second, Xiaokui crashed to death on the mirror of the dresser, her head was like a fountain gurgling out, Xiaoli was frightened at the time, and quickly found the director, and when the director arrived at the dressing room, Xiaokui had already lost her breath, and the director could only arrange the performance and then reported to the police, and the police rushed to the scene to investigate, and preliminarily judged that Xiaokui committed suicide, and later after the forensic examination, no other traces of external force were found on Xiaokui's body, and the result of the suicide was finally determined.
Although the police determined that it was a suicide, the director of the opera troupe did not dare to agree, after all, people who committed suicide had a reason, either their careers were not going well, or they were under too much pressure, or they had some mental illness, but according to the director's investigation, Xiaokui was originally an innocent and lively young actor with potential, and there were no major physical and psychological problems, and her family was harmonious, her career was on the rise, and she was also talented in opera performances, not at all like a person with pressure, This suicide incident really made the opera director feel bizarre, the director at first thought that Xiao Li, Xiao Aoi's substitute actor, killed out of jealousy, but the final autopsy results showed that Xiao Li was innocent, and the director could only admit that Xiao Kui committed suicide.
However, the matter is not over here, the opera director always feels that things are strange, so he retrieved the video of the day's performance and the surveillance video of the corridors in the backstage to check a little bit, he originally planned to check whether Xiaokui's emotional state is abnormal, so as to find the reason for Xiaokui's suicide, but what he didn't expect was that the director did not find Xiaokui's abnormal state, but saw a little different in Xiaoli, the corridor monitoring showed that after Xiaoli found Xiaokui's death, he did go to the opera director for the first time, But there was one detail that made the opera director break out in a cold sweat, Xiaoli actually showed a weird smile on her face when she walked out of the dressing room door, eerie and terrifying, but the weird smile only lasted a few seconds before disappearing into the surveillance.
After this incident, the opera director found the soul hunting company after several twists and turns, and after Fan Zengming confirmed, the opera director released a reward in the Qicheng Soul Hunting Branch and decided to let the soul hunting company deal with this strange incident.
Zhang Su had already come to the Times Theater in the east of the city with a bounty at this time, and he first explored some clues around the Times Theater, and then he was ready to walk in through the back door of the Times Theater.
"Where are you? You can't just enter here, you know? Do you have a work permit? Zhang Su was just about to enter through the back door of the Times Theater when he was stopped by the security guard in the security booth and asked.
"I'm not a staff member, I'm just called in to do the work on an ad hoc basis." Zhang Su replied.
"You can't enter without a permit, who knows if you work, if you put you in and lose something, my job will not be guaranteed." The security guard blocked the door of the small open door with his body to prevent Zhang Su from entering.
"Big brother is good, I'm really here to work, the Tian Lai Opera Troupe hasn't left yet, it's their director who asked me to come." Zhang Su pleaded.
"I didn't go, but there was something wrong with their opera troupe, and now there is no performance, everyone lives in an apartment building in the theater, and the director should be rehearsing in the theater at this time. The security guard said.
"It's good to be here, then please big brother, please put me in, I'll go to their director now." Zhang Su asked again.
"Why are you like this? I said no, I won't let you in unless you have a work ID. The security guard scolded.
"Big brother, do you think this is okay, you can call the director of the Tianlai Opera Troupe inside, and say that the company sent him to work, can he come out to pick me up?" Zhang Su asked.
"How do I know the phone number of other people's big directors, don't you deliberately embarrass me." The security guard refused with some unkindness.
"You're not afraid of offending the big director by turning me away, big brother, you have to think of a way, as long as you can contact the people inside, you can contact the director, it is estimated that someone will come out to pick me up." Zhang Su pleaded.
"Okay, you wait, I'll call the theater manager inside and ask him to help you find the director of the troupe, by the way, you fill in your information in this entry and exit record book, you can't fill in false information, I'll check your ID later." The security guard thought about it for a moment and finally agreed.
Zhang said "um" and said yes, so when the security guard dialed the phone, he filled in the number of people, name, mobile phone number and ID number in the entry and exit record book according to the regulations, as his own entry and exit certificate.
As soon as Zhang Su finished filling it out, the security guard hung up the phone and said to Zhang Su: "Manager Wang of the theater asked you to wait a while, he wants to check with Director Deng Da, and he will give you an answer after the verification is over." ”
Zhang Su nodded, followed the security guard into the security booth, found a dilapidated folding chair and sat down, waiting for the response of the theater insiders, the security guard asked Zhang Su for his ID card and returned it to Zhang Su after checking the information.
About five or six minutes later, the phone at the security booth rang, the security guard answered the phone, hung up the phone quickly after a few "um" sounds, and said to Zhang Su: "You go in, don't run around, go straight from here to turn right, there is a small red door, you go down the corridor after you enter from there, Director Deng said that he is waiting for you there." ”
Zhang Su nodded, walked in the direction of the security guard's finger, and soon saw the security guard's so-called little red door, Zhang Su opened the steel handle of the red door, entered the theater from the small red door, and walked along the corridor all the way.
"Is it Master Zhang?" Before Zhang Su reached the end of the corridor, a middle-aged man in his fifties and sixties walked towards Zhang Su and asked.
"The master doesn't dare to be, call me Xiao Zhang, I don't know who you are?" Zhang Su replied modestly.
"I am the director of Deng Zhihe of the Tianlai Opera Troupe, you are from the company, I am looking forward to finally bringing you the master." The middle-aged man sighed.
"Oh, it turned out to be Director Deng, I have heard of it for a long time, your opera "Moscow Love Story" is very famous, I have seen some clips on the Internet, and I have admired you for a long time, but I have not had the opportunity to watch your performance in person." Zhang Su said with a greeting.
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, let's talk about Xiaokui's death, I haven't left here just to get to the bottom of this matter, I want to know if Xiaoli did it, if it's really her, then I'm going to kick this scourge scum out of the troupe, so as not to hurt others too much" Deng Zhihe explained.
"I've heard about it, but it's a bit arbitrary to tell who the killer is based on a single laugh." Zhang Su comforted.
"That's why I just found you, master, the police didn't find evidence on the side, in fact, I understand, I have long heard that there is a method of harming people called descending the head, I feel that Xiaokui was lowered by Xiaoli, so Xiaokui will commit suicide bizarrely, and Xiaoli will show that weird expression." Director Deng Zhihe responded.
"Director Deng, don't guess about this matter first, how about I give you a satisfactory answer? Hurry up and take me to the place where the accident happened, I'm actually in a hurry, and I have other work to do. Zhang Su said with a smile.
Deng Zhihe saw that Zhang Su seemed to be really anxious, so he nodded and agreed, and walked to the backstage of the theater performance with Zhang Su.
Along the way, Zhang Su saw a lot of large and small rooms, some rooms are full of neatly arranged dressers, some rooms are placed with all kinds of performance clothes, and some rooms are equipped with some ladder shelves, obviously this is the theater for the various performance groups that come here to hold performances, are some commonly used props, mostly used to set up the stage and assist performances, but its number and variety are indeed rare in other theaters, Zhang Su can't help but sigh that the professionalism of the Times Theater is worthy of the provincial theater.
"It's here, that's it, this is the dressing room where the accident happened at that time, when the accident happened, the others were either performing or waiting, only Xiaokui and Xiaoli were here to make up the makeup for the next scene, master, take a look, this place has barely moved according to my orders, just carried the dead Xiaokui away." Deng Zhihe took Zhang Su to a dressing room and said while opening the door with the key.
"Got it." Zhang Su nodded, and stroked the door frame of a dressing room with his hand, and the Soul Monument Soul Enhancement Technique was opened.