Volume 1 Chapter 6 Worship of the Beast
The empty corridor was silent, save for the faint sound of footsteps on the floor.
Bai Jinshi took off his gloves and stuffed them back into his front pocket, and stretched out a hand to loosen the bow tie tied around his neck.
Thinking of the scenes of today's farce, Bai Jin sneered and laughed, his eyes were cold. I'm afraid that from today onwards, he will become a joke in City A.
Don't look at today's occasion and scale, it is not a big show, but Old Man Bai is there in person, not to mention that the invited guests have already included most of the power of the A world.
As a leading real estate developer, the Bai family has obtained several public welfare projects in cooperation with the government, especially in recent months, and the development momentum is booming. But now after Bai Xiuhan's accident, the Bai family has no leader, and it has become a scattered sand, if it is not for the foundation of the century-old family, I am afraid that it will become a piece of cake that can be shared by all families in City A.
Such a family perseverance in a high position, but also bear the risk of information transparency at the level of news gossip, even a little wind and grass can be spread all over the city.
It's just that outsiders never thought that Old Man Bai would support an illegitimate child on this storm.
Such a move made many people in the A family who cooperated with the Bai family also ready to move, and they all speculated whether the position of the head of the family was going to change. But before the Bai family was officially announced, more people were still in a wait-and-see attitude.
Others don't understand, and Bai Jinshi, who is one of the parties involved, is even more vigilant in his heart. He didn't believe that this grandfather, who hadn't seen him two or three times in a year, had taken a fancy to his ability and wanted to cultivate something.
When walking past a waiting mirror in the corridor, Bai Jinshi stopped and straightened his neckline that was pulled a little messy in front of the mirror.
He is wearing a well-tailored white suit today, which is modeled after the tuxedo dress in a European aristocratic banquet. The fabric is well-structured and the texture is layered, but this three-piece suit is really a bit thick to wear in this season, especially pay attention to the rules and neatness of the dress, and each button is buttoned neatly and neatly, without leaving a trace of wrinkles.
Looking at himself in the mirror who was dressed up indecently, he looked like a clown.
Bai Jin sneered, this Bai family's style is still so face-saving.
At this moment, a middle-aged man in a neat suit hurriedly ran over, his fat face covered with horizontal flesh, and he trembled comically with his running steps.
Bai Jinshi turned his head to take a look, then retracted his gaze lightly, and continued to walk forward indifferently.
The man was fast, and he caught up with him in three or two steps. After seeing that the young master was not injured, he was relieved.
"Young master, I didn't find you just now, everyone is in a hurry." Wang Cheng took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his head, and the expression on his face was really a little anxious.
Bai Jinshi hummed casually: "There are too many people, I ran out along the escape route." ”
Wang Cheng looked around in disbelief and asked in a low voice, "That'...... What about Miss Gu? ”
Bai Jinshi shook his head.
Originally, he was pulling Gu Le and preparing to leave the hotel, but when he reached the corner, he suddenly rushed over from the opposite direction and hit him. And when he helped the man up, he found that Miss Gu had been scattered by the crowd and didn't know where she went.
Thinking of this sudden accident, Bai Jinshi's face became very ugly: "Has the cause of the fire been investigated?" Why did there be such a big mistake? ”
Wang Cheng knew that he couldn't escape a reproach this time, so he had to bow down and admit his mistake first: "Xiaohou has been sent to investigate, it may be that their subordinates are not good at it." ”
Bai Jinshi was obviously not satisfied with such an answer, but knew that only by investigating the cause and effect of the accident could he come up with a way to remedy the loophole.
His brows furrowed even tighter: "I always feel uneasy, remember to report any news to me in time." ”
Wang Cheng was already weak-hearted, and when he heard that this matter could be revealed lightly, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and nodded his head quickly.
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Gu Le, who was worried about them, was standing in the corridor of the cubicle on the second floor at this time, confronting a ghost.
Hu Yao's body has become more transparent than the first meeting, and the soul power that is constantly circulating in himself has a tendency to collapse. At this moment, a thick, fishy-smelling black gas wafted around her. On closer inspection, they were made up of countless weak black masses, like vampires floating around, trying in vain to devour the remaining soul power in her body.
Once this force is consumed, she will not be far from being scattered.
These small black masses floating in the air are a type of evil spirits, called Zhen, which is a kind of murderous creature born from the bones that have been mutilated by capital punishment and dismemberment.
Most of these carrion corpses are wicked people who were killed or did many evils before death, and they are still resentful even after death. In this environment where the great evil and the great murderer merge, if the corpse is not exceeded in time, the ghosts floating in the dead corpse will continue to be produced in batches. They have no self-consciousness and instinctively enhance their abilities by devouring the lonely ghosts that float in the sun or have lost their souls, and after 7749 days, they will conceive intractable demons in this body.
Although the two have a big difference in ability, they are easy to reproduce, disgusting like locusts, and it is impossible to really destroy it without finding the carrion, which is also one of the evil things in the Tao that makes people very headache.
The wild form has no autonomous ability, and it is easy to devour, and those like this with clear marks to chase and run are obviously raised as Gu.
Fortunately, Hu Yao's body was pasted with a soul-fixing talisman on Gu Le's body, and Gu Le temporarily lent her the seized soul to stabilize her body and soul, which avoided the fate of being swallowed by this evil spirit.
Gu Lehu stared at her suspiciously: "What kind of grudge does you have a deep grudge against you at a young age, and you dare to fight?" ”
Hu Yao ate so many offerings from the Gu family, and she can be regarded as one of the bandit girls in the ghost world of City A. This was beaten so badly, could it be that he stole the offerings of the lonely souls and wild ghosts and was beaten?
Hu Yao's face sank, half ashamed and half gritted his teeth, and said: "Just now I bumped into a little ghost raised by someone, and he was overshadowed, and he almost took away his soul." ”
Thanks to her timely escape, otherwise she would definitely have been devoured by the evil ghost and died. It's just that on the way to escape, he accidentally bumped into a formation that the man didn't know, and was followed all the way here by several ghosts under his command.
Gu Le stopped changing his clothes and turned his head: "What did you investigate?" ”
Hu Yao said: "That person is very vigilant, and I found it before I found it." ”
Gu Le buttoned the last button of the disguise, and put a baseball cap on his head neatly: "Take me to see it." ”
Although Hu Yao was still a little hesitant, he was afraid of the means and ability of this employer, so he had to lead the way in front.
According to Hu Yao, the heaviest position of yin qi is in a utility room on the third floor that has been idle for many years, but unfortunately after the accident, the hotel staff came forward to explain that the fuse of the main gate upstairs was burned, and the passage to the top was closed as soon as the accident occurred.
Gu Le deliberately avoided the camera, stole a temporary room card from the staff cloakroom to open the room on the second floor, and climbed to the balcony on the third floor through the connection of the balcony between the two floors.
As soon as he landed, Gu Le felt that the temperature around him had dropped a lot, and it seemed that he had entered an ice cellar that was ventilated on all sides, and the clammy and sticky feeling that invaded his skin came back again.
Gu Le rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, but he didn't have a decent self-defense prop around him, so he opened a few spirit runes in his package and stuffed them into his pocket. However, the supply of spirit runes is limited, and there will always be a time when they will run out, and in this dangerous environment where they do not know the future, they cannot fully add their lives to this spirit rune.
Taoist talisman is very particular about etiquette and law-abiding, generally the heavenly master in the painting of the talisman most of the pay attention to bathing and changing clothes, reciting mantras, a little spiritual light is a talisman that is God's favorite treatment.
But Gu Le is a half-asser in this talisman, and he doesn't have cinnabar and talisman paper at hand, so he can only temporarily use the special ability of this body.
Gu Le bit his fingertips instead of cinnabar, silently urged the spell in his heart, and drew the Beidou Evil Breaking Talisman that he practiced most on weekdays on both sides of his clothes. I don't know if it's the crisis that stimulates the potential, this time the drawing is not as suffocating as the previous pause of the pen, the next stroke is like flowing water, in one go.
After finishing the painting, she shook a few handfuls in front of Hu Yao, turned around, and asked, "How does it look?" ”
Hu Yao: "......"
Hu Yao didn't dare to skip the challenge, and took a few steps back vigilantly: "...... Weird and terrible. ”
Gu Le was satisfied, and after gaining confidence, he pushed the door out majestically.
Hu Yaoyin floated in front of him a few times, and finally pointed to a locked compartment.
Gu Le listened outside the door for a while, and after finding that there was no movement inside, he raised his foot and kicked the locked door open.
This was originally a utility room, with some missing tables, chairs and benches piled up in the corners next to the wall, which looked like no one had been tidying up for a long time, and a large cloud of dust had fallen on the floor. However, unlike the other utility rooms, it has a small altar table in the center of the vacuum, on which a small clay statue is enshrined. The head of the sheep is now, and at this time the front is aimed at the direction of the door.
Cigarette smoke curls inside the sandalwood and ash is scattered all over the ground, and it looks like someone has set it up here before the wedding process begins.
The incense inside is too exquisite, and Hu Yao's saliva outside the door is about to drip out. But this kind of exclusive offering table is covered with a formation to gather yin and replenish qi, and it smells like a delicacy, and it is a bite of broken rice to eat.
She muttered sourly: "What kind of people are these, they don't offer good auspicious beasts, they are dedicated to this kind of insidious and dirty thing." ”
"This man is shady and insatiable."
Saying this, Gu Le searched around the house again, but except for the statue of the enshrined beast, he couldn't find out where the source of this evil thing was, and finally had to target the crippled glutton.
Hu Yao smiled and mocked: "The fierce god is also a god, Great Heavenly Master, your conclusion is too fast, right?" ”
The title of "Great Heavenly Master" spit out of her mouth is a kind of humiliation, how can there be a Heavenly Master in this world who is frightened by ghosts and faints?
Gu Le said indifferently: "That's because you are too lonely and unheard, the mage cultivates his body, and the Taoist cultivates his heart." Gluttony likes to swallow, accumulates wealth without using it, and is good at taking people's things, but the auspicious beast Fengyang, warding off evil and eliminating evil," the corners of her mouth hooked an arc, and there was a sense of agility and freshness with her shining eyes. It's just that the words that come out of my mouth are too unpleasant, "I've been a ghost for so many years, I have bullied the weak, and I don't dare to show my face in front of the Heavenly Master, I am so shallow, and I don't feel ashamed?" ”
Hu Yao: "......"
Hu Yao was resentful in her heart: As a standard housemaid, why should she be dragged to be publicly executed after death!