Chapter 8: The Cruel and Pitiful God
Wang Ge was in a bad mood, and although Sun Chengde helped him cook in the cafeteria at noon, he couldn't eat a bite. The entry procedures are almost completed, although Wang Ge wants to escape, but the gambling contract has been generated, if you don't become an ambulance driver, what other way can you save 3,000 people in three years?
Starting tomorrow, he will start his job as a trainee ambulance driver, with a monthly salary of 3,000, five insurances and one housing fund, no holidays, only three days off every month, and he will be on duty. Xiangsha City is the provincial capital, although it has just been promoted to a second-tier city, but such a tiring job, only 3,000 yuan salary, is definitely not high, can only be regarded as food and clothing.
Although it was a long white shift, the time was from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., a full 12 hours. Sun Chengde threw Wang Ge a thick booklet, and the ambulance driver behaved in a standardized manner. While eating, he introduced the above training content to Wang Ge, what can be done, what can not be done, every time you go out of the car, you need to fill in the car record, including time, address, mileage, fuel volume, etc., the content is relatively simple.
The king pigeon didn't listen, but had to listen. Sun Chengde saw that he didn't have much thought, so he asked him to go home early in the afternoon and go back to study the code of conduct, and he still needed to take the exam the next day. As for the actual operation, you can only learn it slowly during the internship.
The rainy season has already ended in Xiangsha City in September, although the residual heat of summer has not completely dissipated, but this period can be regarded as the most comfortable season in Xiangsha City throughout the year.
The king pigeon did not choose the bus, he wanted to walk home. Maybe a walk can ease your mood?
"I've saved the first person, but your face isn't very good. “
The voice from behind startled the thinking king pigeon, and when he turned his head, he found that Xuzi was behind him.
Wang Ge didn't doubt why Xuzi could know his location, after all, the soul-suppressing card tied around his neck was given to him by Xuzi. This brand also added a trace of Void Purple's breath, so Void Purple did not reject the brand like other Grim Reapers.
Today, the purple upper body is wearing a sleeveless denim jacket, which is a thin pink suspender, the lower body is a pair of denim super shorts, sneakers on his feet, and a high ponytail is flicked around the back of his head, looking young and energetic.
In her hand, she still held a lilac long-handled umbrella, but it was not open.
Wang Ge, the girl of death, doesn't have much affection, after all, she took Lan Xin's soul with her own hands, but she didn't dare to turn her face with her, and she made a bet with others, in case she unilaterally invalidated the gambling contract, and found some law enforcer to invalidate herself, it would really outweigh the loss.
"You like to change clothes, and every time I see you, the clothes on your body are different. Wang Ge didn't say anything about the sarcasm of Xuzi in his heart. Void purple can no longer be counted as a "person". She is the Grim Reaper.
The Grim Reaper needs to use an umbrella all year round to make himself invisible, otherwise ordinary people will definitely be suspicious when they see the strange movements of the Grim Reaper near him.
This umbrella with special abilities allows the Grim Reaper to easily enter any place and approach anyone.
But once invisible, no matter what clothes the god of death wears, no one else can see it.
"Most Grim Reapers, who are troublesome and don't like to disguise, just carry umbrellas and take away other people's souls in a state of invisibility. I don't like umbrellas, but I need different clothes to look social for different occasions, and I'm a girl anyway! Void purple stroked her purple ponytail.
"Seeing that you are in a bad mood, please eat!" Xuzi didn't care whether the king pigeon agreed or not, and directly took his arm to a café on the side of the road.
Desserts and steaks were also served at the café, and she called in a waiter and paid for two steaks.
"Three o'clock in the afternoon, you don't eat? It seems that your business is quite busy. Wang Ge sneered and sat down helplessly. The soft music in the café made him feel a lot better.
Void Purple didn't seem to hear the aggressiveness in the king's language, but just lowered her head and shook the ice cubes in the water glass. "Death doesn't need food. ”
"How many Grim Reapers?" asked Wang Ge suddenly.
"I don't know, when I became the Grim Reaper, I was told that I only had to do my job well, and once someone was on the verge of death, we had to bring their soul back to the underworld, and the next person was on the verge of death, and we would go to the next place. The time and place are completely random, all we have to do is sort out the book of life and death, and take the soul away according to the time and place shown above, as well as the name of the god of death who is responsible for dealing with it. Xuzi took a sip of ice water and smacked her lips.
"What if it's time for a break?"
"Death doesn't need rest. Xuzi smiled bitterly.
"Twenty-four hours a day, without eating, drinking, or sleeping, just looking at the various states of life, taking all kinds of souls away, experiencing all kinds of death moments, and experiencing their life and death. We can never run out of money in the human world, but we can't participate in all kinds of things in the human world, and there is no way to solve it. ”
The king pigeon was silent.
He seemed to regret what he had just said. The Grim Reaper exists in this world in a special state of life, and can reach any part of the world, but he can't do anything other than take away his soul, even if he has money, what is the use? In this way, the love of beauty and the love of dressing up is just one way to achieve self-satisfaction.
Even if Aimei likes to change clothes, her only hobby, not many people will see it, even if Xuzi doesn't play an umbrella very much.
Xuzi once mentioned that she has been a Grim Reaper for more than thirty years, how did she spend her more than thirty years of boring life?
The Grim Reaper is also pitiful.
If it were me, I am afraid that I would have collapsed a long time ago!" thought the king pigeon.
The waiter brought two steaming, sizzling steaks. Void Purple put down the cup in his hand, his fingers tapped twice on the table, and for a moment Wang Ge felt that his hairs stood on end, goosebumps rose, and the cold air was on in the café, but the surrounding temperature dropped under the influence of Void Purple.
"It's ready to eat. Void purple withdrew her finger.
Wang Ge felt a little more comfortable at this time, and then looked at the steak on the table, which seemed to have cooled down rapidly, and the temperature had reached the level of being able to eat.
Xuzi also picked up the knife and fork, cut a piece of beef and put it in his mouth, his mouth moved twice, his face was full of disgust, and he seemed to be holding back and not spitting it out.
"Don't like beef?" "The king pigeon didn't care so much, he got up early in the morning, didn't eat much at noon, and now he was grumbling with hunger, and he picked up his knife and fork and began to feast.
"Death doesn't need to eat, and it doesn't have a sense of taste. For Xuzi, any delicacy tastes like chewing wax in her mouth, it's okay not to eat it, but she wants to vomit when she eats it.
The movements on Wang Ge's hand stopped, and when he first came into contact with Void Purple, he felt that the Grim Reaper was an existence beyond the world, free and unbreakable, but he didn't expect that the longer the time, the more he knew that the Grim Reaper was actually a chore.
I don't even feel like eating, what's the point of consciously being in this world?
"Don't you have a little pity and pity when you take away your soul?" the king pigeon seemed to be concerned about the feelings of the void purple, and slowed down the pace of eating.
"In the beginning, there were. But after a long time, I can think about it. Xuzi said what Sun Chengde had said in the morning, and there was a hint of helplessness in his tone.
"It can be regarded as a discovery of my conscience, I don't want so many people to experience life and death, so I made this bet with you. Xuzi didn't eat any more, looked at the king pigeon with a smile, and looked down at his watch again.
"I saved one in the morning, and it was I fished in troubled waters. But when I actually went to save someone, she died. In just a second, maybe not even a second, the Grim Reaper took the soul of the middle-aged woman from the car, and I didn't know her name. Wang Ge said.
"I know about it. You can also see the attitude of that woman after the accident. Are you saying she doesn't deserve to die?"
The middle-aged woman looked arrogant and domineering, and she didn't have any feelings for the girl she hit with her car, but even such a person has a family and parents. No one wants an accident, she doesn't deserve to die. The king pigeon replied.
"I could have saved her. ”
"You'll have a lot of things like this in the future. Death will not hesitate to take any soul, and that's our job. And saving people is your job. Therefore, we have our own destiny. Purple's attitude slowly became serious, and she would not give any kind of help to the king pigeon except for this bet.
"Destiny? You still talk about destiny?" Wang Ge seemed to be a little excited, "Since I was a child, Lan Xin has never done anything that hurts heaven and reason, even she stands in the way of me stepping on ants, what a kind girl?
Xuzi just looked at the king pigeon and didn't speak.
Seeing that Xuzi did not answer his question. , the king pigeon changed the subject. "Is there any other god in the world besides the god of death? such as the heavenly court in myths and legends, the Jade Emperor, and those gods in the West...... or something."
"I don't know, the Grim Reaper is just the Grim Reaper, I don't know what other gods are, and I don't know if they really exist. Xuzi stood up and tidied up his clothes again, as if he was going to work again.
When Wang Ge saw that she was leaving, he hurriedly said. "The last question is, is there a situation where you don't take away people's souls when they die?"
"There is such a situation. And there are a lot of them. There are derelict reapers, and if they fail to do so, they will be punished and reduced to law enforcers. And those souls that were not taken away will be recovered by them, and that is not our responsibility. ”
"Spirits, like the Grim Reaper, do not really exist in this world, do not cause any changes to the world, cannot even communicate with ordinary people, do not need to eat, do not need to rest. There are many geists who experience this boring feeling and would rather find the enforcer by themselves and choose to be reincarnated, but there are a few geists who want to accompany their relatives and friends and do not want to be reincarnated, so when the enforcer arrives, they will deliberately avoid the enforcer. For example......" Void Zi pointed to a seat by the window in the café.
In that seat sat an old man with reading glasses, staring blankly out the window, he didn't order anything, and no waiter came to ask him. He was just sitting there alone, looking out the window, as if waiting for something.
Wang Ge noticed that there was no shadow of the old man.
"He's a geist?" a chill ran down the back of the pigeon's spine. He couldn't see death and souls before, but now that he has this ability, he suddenly knows that there are so many creepy things around him before.
Void Purple nodded. "At the very least, he's a ghost who hasn't been found by the enforcers. The enforcers have no way to locate them, so they can only look through the Book of Lives and Deaths, and if they find that the person's soul has not been recovered, they will look up the person's life and speculate on the location of his soul until they are caught. ”
Xu Zi glanced at her watch again, and Wang Ge felt numb to her action. "I recommend that you do not communicate with them, once the geist is caught by the enforcer, and you communicate with the geist, they may reveal to the enforcer that there is a person like you in the world who can see the spirit of death. Even if they have the Soul Suppression card, they don't dare to touch you, but once the matter gets big and provokes high-level law enforcers, or even Lord Hades, then our end will be miserable. ”
"Pretending to be ...... Don't you see?" the king pigeon panicked. Now he has to pay special attention not only to people with long-handled umbrellas, but also to people without shadows. They could all be Grim Reaper or Geist.
"Yes, pretend not to see it. Void Zi stared at his watch. "I should go, hurry up when you're done eating, the enforcers may be here soon. ”
Xuzi didn't say anything more, walked out of the café, and opened his umbrella.
Wang Ge tried hard to keep his eyes from falling on the old man, but he couldn't help but peek a few times.