Private work?

Hearing this keyword, Chen Xian frowned slightly, only remembering that the last time the old liar sent him a private job was nearly half a year ago, and a lot of work was directly transferred to the Secret Bureau...... Why do you suddenly have another private job today?

"Chen Xian?" Mu He looked up at Chen Xian and asked curiously, "What is private work?" ”

"Private work is work outside of work." Chen Xian led everyone to the side and sat down familiarly, and he didn't mean to be polite to the old liar, he reached out and picked up the teapot and poured tea for the people present, "Grandpa Ge, this time the work shouldn't be simple, after all, its skin is quite expensive......"

Over the years, Chen Xian has taken over a lot of private jobs, but the highest price is only two or three million once, and it can't even compare to the salary of those high-level cases assigned by the Secret Bureau.

Of course, a large part of the reason for this lies in the old liar, because he is not Chen Xian's superior. After all, judging from Chen Xian's net worth, even if he can't get a job for half a year, he may not be able to starve to death, so those jobs that pay high but are equally dangerous, the old liar will never send them to him.

Chen Xian noticed this very early, but he never mentioned it, but at this time, he ...... Chen Xian was indeed a little surprised, what kind of private work can be paid as much as 20 million?!

Even if there is, according to the temper of the old liar, it is impossible to give it to himself, after all, the higher the pay, the more dangerous the private work.

"This private work, the client is Lao Xian, let it tell you the specific things."

Suddenly, Xu Yanan opened his mouth coldly, looked at the old liar cautiously and asked.

"Master Ge, do we need to avoid it?"

What the rules in the Yin City are, Xu Yanan doesn't know, but in terms of the rules in the Inhuman Circle, private work is private. In general, there will be no one else at the scene where the "transaction" is discussed, except for the client and the receiver.

"No, you don't." The old liar waved his hand with a cigarette in his mouth, put his feet on the coffee table in flip-flops, and smiled on his face, as if he didn't pay attention to the so-called rules, "Just listen to it, don't talk about it." ”

The old toad squatted on a chair, holding the long cigarette stick in his hand, and nodded with a smile when he heard the old liar's words, and the attitude towards those rules was similar to that of the old liar, as if it didn't take it seriously.

"Tell me about your private work." Chen Xian held the teacup and looked at the old toad calmly, wondering what was going on this time, could it be that the old liar had changed his sex?

"About half a year ago...... Right....... It was half a year ago......."

The old toad smoked the tobacco leaves in his pipe, his cloudy eyes slowly narrowed, as if he was remembering something, and his voice became a little distant, as if he was telling a very distant story.

"It started a long time ago...... I have been practicing near Meishan in Yunnan Province...... Most of my apprentices have also taken root in that mountain range with me......" the old toad recalled, slowly recounting, "The Meishan mountain range is like my home...... I'm too familiar with it....... I know every plant and tree...... But I never thought that would happen. ”

When the old toad said this, his voice paused slightly, and a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.

In Yunnan Province, the old toad's cave is on the top of Meishan, although it is not the Taoist often said that the cave heaven blessed land, but compared to the so-called cave heaven blessed land, the old toad's cave house is not much worse, less than a hundred feet of the cave house with yin and yang energy gathered but not dispersed, there is the essence of the sun and the moon on the qi of the earth's veins......

"It's about three miles from my cave...... There is a stream that starts from the top of the mountain...... The source should be the underground dark river of the Meishan Mountains......" The old toad's voice became heavy, and the fire on the pipe flickered and dimmed, like its uncertain face, "The stream that crosses the mountain range has always been extremely clear...... Until half a year ago...... It began to bleed. ”

"Bleeding?" Chen Xian was stunned for a moment.

The old toad nodded and took a hard puff of his cigarette.

According to the old toad, that strange vision came from a late night.

That night, it was concentrating on cultivation in the cave, and suddenly smelled a pungent smell of blood, and when it came out of the cave, it was found that bursts of blood-colored mist had risen in the mountains and forests, just like the kind of fog that is common in the mountains and forests, first rising from the ground, and then slowly rising into the air, and in a moment the entire Meishan was wrapped in these blood mist.

These strange blood mist seemed to be evaporated from fresh blood, and the bloody smell that permeated the mountains and forests made Shen Yi feel pungent, Meishan seemed to have become an invisible battlefield like a flesh mill, although there were no corpse wreckage here, but that kind of strong blood qi...... Only let Shen Yi have the illusion that thousands of people are dying in the mountains.

"The blood mist in the mountains and forests lasted for two incense sticks, and then it dispersed, as if it had never appeared, but the only thing that didn't disappear was the smell of blood." As he spoke, he slowly shook his pipe and shook the burned tobacco leaves into the ashtray, "I followed the smell to find the source, and I was also curious...... What is it that can elicit such a vision of magnitude? ”

Following the pungent smell, Shen Yi searched in the mountains and forests, and soon found the source of the continuous smell of blood.

That source was the stream not far from its cave.

The creek that flows out of the cracks in the mountains and forests was once a beloved beauty, where the water is clear and almost transparent, and it never dries up even if the seasons change, and it flows quietly in spring, summer, autumn and winter, as if it will not be affected by all external factors, and it has always maintained a state of "self".

But that all changed after the blood mist appeared.

The meandering stream is like a wound torn out of the earth, and the once clear and cold water has all turned into blood with residual warmth......

"I checked...... It's blood, not water...... It's all real blood...... I can feel the breath of life they carry..... Very faint,......." muttered the old toad, as if remembering the first time he saw that vision, and even speaking became nervous, "about half a pillar of incense...... The color of the stream began to fade slowly...... And then it went back to the way it was......"

"Finally the stream is back to normal?" Chen Xian asked curiously.

"yes, it's back to normal." The old toad said, his eyes becoming helpless, "But from that day on, every night or so, the stream will turn into blood, and that vision has not completely disappeared until today." ”

"Have you ever been to see the source of the water?" Chen Xian asked.

"Yes." The old toad sighed and put his pipe aside, "The source of the stream is a crack in the top of Meishan Mountain, which is connected to the underground river, so I also wondered if there was something wrong underground. ”

"You went in and saw it?" There was a hint of curiosity in Chen Xian's eyes, after all, it was the first time he had heard of such a thing as a stream turning into blood.

"I've been in eleven times, but every time I go in, I'm kicked out." The old toad smiled bitterly.

Kicked out?

Hearing these words, everyone present looked at each other one after another, could it be that there are other existences in the underground dark river?

"Who kicked you out?" Chen Xian asked curiously.

"Who's not it...... It should be an invisible force...... It's very similar to a ghost hitting a wall......." said the old toad, and couldn't help but recall the picture of entering the underground river eleven times, and his eyes became a little confused, "As soon as I entered, I felt that a force was repelling me as an outsider...... It's hard to describe how it feels....... I went in and walked around for two minutes and it wasn't very deep. Surveyed ..... In the blink of an eye, I found myself back at the entrance......"

Chen Xian had encountered this phenomenon that the old toad said, but intuitively speaking, the anomalies that he had encountered that could be explained by ghosts hitting the wall may be different from the old toad's experience, after all, it is an abnormal life, and it should be more sensitive to the "domain". It is impossible to be easily confused by the "domain" like a living person.

"I'd like you to take a look." The old toad cuts to the point, Shuo. Big eyes stared at Chen Xian tightly, "The master said that you can help me solve this matter, so I want to trouble you to go to Yunnan Province with me." ”

"Can I help you with that?" Chen Xian was stunned, looking at the old liar in disbelief, his expression was a little helpless, "Ge Ye, can you not brag nonsense?" You know it's not what I'm good at......"

Rather than eliminating the anomaly, it is better to find the cause behind the anomaly...... Chen Xian is better at fighting.

Judging from the current known information, the reason why the stream turned into blood is still unknown, if there is an abnormal life behind it, then it is okay to say, as long as the target object is found and rid of it, but ...... Chen Xian felt that this matter was not so simple.

"I happened to be there two months ago, believe me."

The old liar smiled, leaned forward slightly, and looked at Chen Xian's eyes full of trust.

"Only you can do that."