Volume 1: Onboarding Section 14: Closing the Deal
"Are you kidding? Boyfriend still temporary? ”
Zhang looked at Pu Zitong in astonishment, not understanding what Pu Zitong was thinking.
"Why not, isn't it popular for single men and women to rent a other half home during the New Year's holiday, it's similar to that, I want to rent you as my boyfriend, and the lease period is two years." Pu Zitong explained.
"Can this be the same? Single men and women rent their other half to go home in order to deal with forced marriage, your purpose of renting me is to use me as a shield for you to compete with your relatives, little sister, can we not mess around? I'm going to be killed by you. ”
When Zhang Su heard Pu Zitong's rented boyfriend, she understood Pu Zitong's little abacus in her heart, it is estimated that Pu Zitong came up with a strategy after hearing the advice she gave her before, this strategy can indeed help Pu Zitong temporarily relieve pressure, this relief is just a transfer of pressure, if she becomes her temporary boyfriend, she will definitely become the target of those who covet the Pu family, and now I don't know how many people are staring at Pu Zitong and the Pu family.
"No, first of all, you are not a soul master yet, but you will become a soul master soon, as long as you become a soul master, you will meet the conditions for recruiting relatives, and your age is one year older than me, you can participate; Secondly, the marriage is set for two years, you don't need to accept the challenge of other competitors before the expiration, I think you are both rational and a little cowardly, not a strong person, you should be able to resist the provocation of others, after two years, you directly announce your withdrawal, the real showdown will be left to me, you will be my two-year smokescreen, what I want is two years of Qing Xiu; The most important point is that you are a soul master who is a monk halfway, does not involve the interests of all parties, and has the signboard of the soul hunting company as a cover, although you are just a small minion, but Mr. Nan Guo is more protective, as long as you don't do anything that violates the iron law of the soul master, Mr. Nan Guo will not easily let others force a shot at you, and whoever dares to make a move on you is equivalent to being an enemy of the entire soul hunting company. ”
Pu Zitong Luo listed the various advantages of Zhang Su, which was straightforward and reasonable, but Zhang Su always felt a little twisted when he heard it, although he listed his own advantages, but each one seemed to emphasize that he was a novice, a rookie, and a weak chicken, which made Zhang Su cry and laugh.
"Are you praising me or scolding me?" Zhang Su asked with a sad face.
"Of course I'm complimenting you, you have all the advantages of an ignorant person, of course I'm talking about soul masters." Pu Zitong replied with a smile.
Pu Zitong's smile tasted a little bad, but compared to before, it was the first time Pu Zitong showed a more real smile, and it looked much more comfortable than the hypocritical mask.
"Sure enough, you're scolding me, forget it, haven't you also joined the Soul Hunting Company now, and no one should dare to attack you at will." Zhang asked puzzled.
"This is different, smart people know at a glance that I am here with a purpose, Mr. Nan Guo and the rest of the Soul Hunting Company must also know that according to the company's articles of association, my joining is not in violation, so the company has no reason to refuse, but this is not the same as the label of the soul master family on me can be ignored, and the company will not shelter me outside the articles of association, and you are selected from ordinary people, so it is different, Mr. Nan Guo takes more care of you, Or you are Mr. Nan Guo's hope to revive the once glorious Nan Guo clan, he will not let you have an accident easily, you can understand it this way, Mr. Nan Guo comes from a declining soul master family, but he came up with a way to establish a company to absorb the soul master's combat power from outside the family, and the soul masters who joined the company are all reserve combat power for the company. ”
Although Pu Zitong is not in a big grade, he has seen some things very thoroughly, so thoroughly that Zhang Su mistakenly thinks that the woman sitting in front of him is not a woman younger than him, but an old man of seventy or eighty years old, showing excellent insight.
"Do you mean to say that the Soul Hunting Company is the place where the Nanguo family cultivates elite soldiers outside the clan? Since he is a soldier, there will always be a day when he will charge into battle and die on the battlefield, right? I understand, the soul hunting company is essentially a place to train vanguards for the Nan Guo family, and to reserve their own strength by absorbing soul masters without factions, it seems that Mr. Nan Guo is not only the strongest soul master, but also difficult to match in terms of strategy. From Pu Zitong's words, Zhang Su seemed to understand something.
"Well, now that you understand, you will be alert later, and the probability of being treated as a victim by the company is small, but it's good that you understand this matter yourself, and you must not spread it again, not even a word can be said, only in this way can you safely hide under the eaves of the soul hunting company, you can shelter from the wind and rain on weekdays, and evacuate in time before the house collapses, there will be no big problem." Pu Zitong reminded.
"To put it lightly, it's easy to get in and hard to get out, and it's not just out of kindness that you tell me this, I can only share some hatred for you by hiding under the big signboard of the Soul Hunting Company, if I lose the company's signboard and I have no place to shelter from the rain, you will abandon me at any time, right?" Zhang said.
"Zhang Su, I just thought you were very withdrawn before, but now I have some other discoveries, I found that you are actually smart, and even a little smart and scary, so you are not social, but I like to deal with smart people, and it is easier to communicate, but I want to advise you, how to use smart You have to grasp the proportion, use it well, in exchange for welfare, if you don't use it well, you may not even know how your life is gone." Pu Zitong squinted his eyes and said.
"Thanks for the reminder!"
Zhang Su understood what Pu Zitong meant, there were worries, suggestions, reminders, warnings, intimidation, mixed tastes, and the purpose was of course to use and control himself, so Zhang Su could only answer like this.
"Having said all that, what's in it for me?"
Zhang Su was a little annoyed, he didn't expect the water in the soul master world to be so deep, as soon as he entered the scene, he found that all forces were wrestling with each other, although the soul hunting company was used, it was better to say that it was hired, and there was a bounty income, and Pu Zitong wanted to use himself, but he didn't propose anything in return, of course Zhang Su would not become a shield in the hands of others in vain, if there was an equivalent exchange of interests, it would be good to say, after all, he had just entered the soul master realm, and he had a lot of confusion about this unfamiliar field, but judging from various words, this is also a place of right and wrong, If you don't want to lose your life because of ignorance, then you need more information and more power.
"Didn't you say that earlier? I will help you become a soul master. Pu Zitong blinked and said.
"Miss Pu, if you are so insincere, how can we cooperate? You helped me become a soul master because I helped take care of you, don't be mistaken, and only if I become a soul master can I be your shield, this can't be regarded as the benefit of renting a boyfriend. With that, Zhang Su was about to turn around and leave Pu Zitong's side.
"Okay, I see, you say, what benefits do you want?" Pu Zitong hurriedly stopped Zhang Su and asked.
"What good can you give me? The rent is essential, two thousand per month, pay it monthly, since I want to help you block the gun, I must first let me have the ability to protect myself. ”
Zhang Su didn't know much about the Soul Master Realm, so he didn't know what he wanted, the most important thing he could think of was the ability to save his life, to guard against the open guns and hidden arrows of those competitors, and to ensure that he was not harmed.
"Both conditions are fine, and when you step into the Soul Master Realm, I will pay the rent and teach you some soul skills to escape and save your life." Pu Zitong replied.
"Ordinary soul skills are useless, if other soul masters also do, it shouldn't be useful, what I need is an exclusive secret technique to escape and save my life." Zhang Su continued to open high conditions.
"Yes, what I teach you must be the top life-saving mastery of the Pu family, summoning the soul of the soul, it stands to reason that it is not passed on, and now only my father and I will be able to use this soul skill, I will teach it to you exceptionally, but it also depends on whether you have the talent to cultivate it to the fullest, once you cultivate, there are only a handful of people who can hurt you in the soul master realm, not to mention those juniors of the same age." Pu Zitong introduced.
"Since it's a secret, why did you teach it to me?" Zhang was a little puzzled.
"Suspicious!" Pu Zitong snorted coldly, and then explained, "This is my Pu family's secret technique, my father and I have already cultivated, so we naturally know how to deal with it, you can deal with others after you cultivate, but it must be a big deal to deal with me and my father." Since I said that it is a powerful life-saving secret technique, will you make your life-saving means public, unless you want to find death yourself. And this secret technique can only be used to save your life, it is not lethal, you can use it to protect yourself, and if you use it to do evil, it has no effect at all. The most important point is that even if this secret technique is used, no one will find out that it comes from our Pu family, it is the same as some soul techniques outside, and there is no scruple of being recognized. ”
"No wonder."
Zhang Su sighed, he also thought of what Pu Zitong said, but after listening to Pu Zitong's explanation so clearly, Zhang Su's heart calmed down.
"That's a good deal, isn't it?" Pu Zitong asked.
"Not so good." Zhang Su refused.
Obviously, Zhang Su's answer was beyond Pu Zitong's expectations, she thought that the chips she offered were already very high, but she didn't expect Zhang Su to refuse.
"What's wrong? Do you know that the human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant? Pu Zitong asked puzzled.
"It's not that I don't know satisfaction, but don't you think your abacus is too good? Most of the conditions are to make me better defend you from arrows, and to me, I'm more like a doll under your control. Zhang Su replied.
Zhang Su looked directly at Pu Zitong's eyes with deep eyes, and Pu Zitong's eyes dodged back and forth, but Zhang Su's answer hit Pu Zitong's weakness.
"And what do you want?" Pu Zitong asked again.
"Counting the soul technique that summoned the soul just now, I will add three more conditions, one is that I want to quickly understand the matter of the soul master realm, so you have to tell me the information about the soul master realm as much as you know, and you have to answer truthfully when I ask you, of course, you can stop your Pu family's secret skills or secret information, you can protect your Pu family's privacy, I won't inquire about this."
Zhang Su said the first condition, he felt that Pu Zitong was born in the soul master family after all, and he should know a lot of the content of the soul master realm, so he could pave an information path for himself in advance, as for the information of the Pu family, what he heard from Pu Zitong's mouth must have been castrated, and Zhang Su would collect information about the Pu family from other places.
"It's not a condition, no problem." After listening to this, Pu Zitong readily agreed, and there was no loss for her in this condition.
"Second, right now, I need you to give me something like a contract certificate as a bargaining chip for mutual restraint, otherwise you will be afraid that I will declare that I am no longer your boyfriend before it expires." Zhang Su said the second point, he believes that the verbal agreement is still not very guaranteed, so he hopes that there is a mutual constraint as a bargaining chip between the agreement.
"What you want to say is to sign a soul contract, that's fine, but you have to sign with each other, if anyone breaks the contract, the soul will be damaged." Pu Zitong said a solution, but Zhang Su didn't know what it was, but listening to Pu Zitong's meaning, it seemed that it was the kind of mutual restraint he thought.
"Third, you have to give me something powerful as a means of saving my life, similar to a Horcrux, and I want the kind I can use." Zhang Su said the last condition.
"Sure enough, greedy, do you know how precious Horcruxes are in the Soul Master Realm? Powerful Horcruxes can be described as priceless, you are not what a lion's mouth is! With the addition of monthly rent and life-saving soul skills, there are already five conditions" Pu Zitong was a little angry and questioned Zhang Su.
"Miss Pu, I've been selling my body for two years, two years for you to exchange five conditions, this is not too much, you look at the conditions I offered, what really makes you such a big lady break the cost is rent and Horcruxes, you have to pay a price to buy my youth for two years, if you don't be your temporary boyfriend, maybe I can find a girlfriend to say goodbye to my virgin body in the past two years, don't you say?" Zhang Su explained, his tone deliberately becoming subdued.
"Humph! Are you a virgin or do you blame me? You can find a girlfriend without being rented by me? If you don't look at yourself in the mirror, will you be excited to marry yourself? Pu Zitong replied disdainfully.
"I can't say that, I'm not handsome and ordinary, two years is not long or short, who doesn't have a love affair, do you think everyone is an appearance association, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if someone is blind and likes me, when I see that I have a girlfriend, then I have to run away, you don't want to find a real boyfriend, I want to find a girlfriend can't find it, do you say my sacrifice is great?" Zhang Su showed a three-inch tongue.
"Okay, I can't talk about crooked reasoning, I promise you, but I can't just let you make a request, as an employer who leases you, I also have requirements."
On the one hand, Pu Zitong didn't want to argue with Zhang Su anymore, on the other hand, she also weighed it, and the conditions offered by Zhang Su were also within the acceptable range, and she had to discuss all the cooperation plans clearly, and she also had her own plans.
"You say." Zhang Su is very simple.
"Even if it's a fake couple, you have to be more real, and you can't let outsiders see the flaws, but you can't do the things that real couples do with me." Pu Zitong said her first request.
"What are the things?" Zhang Su pretended not to know and asked with a smile.
Pu Zitong heard Zhang Su's inquiry, and he didn't know how to explain it, but he felt that if he didn't explain, he would leave room for Zhang Su to cheat.
Finally, Pu Zitong blushed, revealing the shy appearance of a little woman, and said shyly: "You are not allowed to sex, kiss, or hug me, including when you are in the same room, you are not allowed to peek at me when I take a shower and change clothes, understand?" ”
"I've been single for more than 20 years, and I don't know that couples still have to do these things! I have seen it for a long time. Zhang Su jokingly sighed.
Pu Zitong listened to Zhang Su's sigh, his face turned even redder, and he turned away from this embarrassing topic, and continued: "From now on, you have to admit that I am my boyfriend, until the day before the expiration of my family's martial arts recruitment, our agreement can be dissolved, and then you can announce that you will resume being single, but no matter what kind of pressure you encounter halfway, you can't privately deny the relationship between us, and I only have the power to dissolve the relationship halfway." ”
"No problem." Zhang Su agreed very happily.
"If you agree, then our deal will be confirmed, which condition do you want to fulfill now?" Pu Zitong asked Zhang Su.
"In that case, can the life-saving Horcrux be handed over to me first, I need to use external force to save my life before I become stronger, and I feel safe when I have a Horcrux next to me." Zhang Su asked.
"I have an inside pocket on my coat with two balls the size of a candy cube in it, and you take them out and don't touch them anywhere else." Pu Zitong hesitated for a moment and said.
Pu Zitong's coat was being worn on her body at this time, Zhang Su slowly approached Pu Zitong who was leaning on the pillow, gently unbuttoned a few buttons on Pu Zitong's coat, and slowly opened her coat, only to see that a silky thin white shirt was revealed inside the coat, which was worn close to the body, and the underwear vaguely revealed Pu Zitong's chest, which was stiff but not very big, dragged with a small bra, not completely covered, looking down at the pink crisp breasts, a poem came to Zhang Su's mind: Xiao Lotus showed sharp corners.
"Look at me again, I'll gouge out your dog's eyes! It's in the left inner pocket of my coat, so take it out! ”
Pu Zitong was stunned when he saw Zhang Su staring at his chest, looked down at Zhang Su's line of sight, and found that Zhang Su was looking down at his chest, and the outline of his chest was faintly exposed, and he immediately scolded him, afraid that Zhang Su would have some evil thoughts.
"Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, is this what you're talking about?"
Zhang Su was awakened by Pu Zitong's words, quickly apologized to Pu Zitong, and took out the things in the inner pocket of his coat as instructed, which looked like two black-brown projectile beads.
"That's right, these two beads are called soul fixing pills, which are imitated by our clan's soul master according to the ancient horcrux soul fixing beads, you don't need soul power to urge, you just need to crush its shell, and the powerful soul power core inside is thrown into the target soul, which can interfere with the soul wave of the soul master, and fix the soul in place for a short time, so as to achieve the opportunity to delay time, this soul fixing pill not only has an effect on the soul master with low soul power, but also has an effect on the high-level soul master, the difference is in the effect of the effect, these two soul fixing pills are consumable horcruxes, It's a one-time thing, and each Soul Fixing Pill can only be used once, so I'll give you these two pills that I carry with me, and it can be regarded as giving you two chances to save your life. Pu Zitong explained the use of the Soul Fixing Pill.
Zhang Su then understood why Pu Zitong agreed to give him a Horcrux, the feeling is to give the two of them a one-time Horcrux, but Zhang Su has nothing to say, after all, he is a layman, and he doesn't explain that disposable Horcruxes are not good, so he can only secretly eat this dumb loss, but there is one thing that Zhang Su feels good, that is, this thing does not need soul power to urge, and it can also act on a soul master who is stronger than himself, and the usage is also very flexible, at least in terms of life-saving, it should be considered good.
"Well, that's a good deal."
This time, Zhang Su didn't try to be hypocritical anymore, and accepted it happily.