I've locked myself in my home for three days now. During this period, both Fat Tsai and Lin Siqi called me, and they heard that I was in a bad mood and asked me to go out for a walk, but I refused.

When the fat boy woke up, he didn't know what had happened, and I didn't want to recall, so he could only grind hard at Lin Siqi, and finally asked about it. Until now, he was still indignant at the fact that the female ghost had taken on him.

After this incident, Meng Tejiao suddenly thought about it. She went to the police station to turn herself in, saying that she had killed Wang Hao, and pushed Tang Hao downstairs, so she was temporarily detained in the detention center and awaiting a future trial.

On the third day of the suspension of classes, an uninvited guest came to the house - Shen Tuming.

Shen Tuming entered the house and said politely: "The aftermath is more troublesome, so I didn't have time to see you until today." ”

"Senior is polite." I dodged and asked Shen Tuming to come into the house, and then helped him close the door, "You came today, there is a case for me to investigate, right?" ”

On the way back from Egypt, Master told me that he had gone to see Shen Tu Ming, and that Shen Tu Ming would send me to investigate a case after a while. I think that's why Shen Tuming came to save me, after all, he had some grievances with Master in his early years.

"You're only half right, there's one more important thing." Shen Tuming walked around my house with his hands behind his back, and suddenly asked with a smile, "Qimen Bagua Array, your master set it up?" ”

He was referring to the protective formation set up in my home, which was indeed set up by my master. Usually, Master and I are often not at home, in order to protect the safety of my master, Master has been in the supernatural circle for so many years, it is inevitable that he will make enemies, of course, this enemy may also be ghosts.

I nodded, and then asked, "What else?" ”

"I'll tell you more about it in a moment." He paced to the living room and saw Xiaobai sleeping in the nest, so he asked again, "Why is there only one, don't you still have a yellow-skinned essence?" ”

I said in my heart, how can Shen Tuming be so clear about my affairs? But his face did not show it, but replied truthfully: "Huang Tao is used to living in the mountains and wilderness, and he doesn't like to go home, and he will only come back if I call it." ”

Shen Tuming nodded, and walked around the room for a while as if the leader was inspecting, then sat down and said slowly: "I'll just say it directly, the Supernatural Association has decided to reshuffle and expand the army, and for this purpose, a ranking qualifying tournament will be held, as long as the conditions are met, you can become a new member of the Supernatural Association." ”

I'm a little stunned, this news is too exciting, right? This reminds me that when the Spiritual Association was assessed before, the Ghost Raising Sect made me stumble, just to let the Five Poisons Sect replace the Righteous Heart Sect, is it now blatantly playing tricks?

My expression betrayed my thoughts, and Shen Tuming immediately explained, "Don't get me wrong, this is a joint decision made by the Supernatural Association. Because the life and death of the three major leaders are still uncertain, everyone thinks that there will be a huge turmoil in the supernatural circle in the future, so they prepared in advance in order to gather more strength. This time, even the three major factions will participate, and eventually all the new members will be re-voted to elect the three permanent member factions. ”

I was shocked when I heard this: "Does my master know about such a big thing?" ”

"Last month, the heads of all the sects gathered together and voted on this proposal, and your master also voted in favor." Shen Tuming replied.

But for such a big thing, the master didn't reveal it at all, am I his own apprentice?

Shen Tuming said again: "Actually, he can agree, I made a deal with him, I promised to save you this time, and he voted yes." And he is very famous in the circle, and many sects have agreed with him. ”

So Master agreed for me? But he should have let me know in advance......

"I'm here today to get you ready, because you are the only one in your righteous heart faction to participate, so it is more difficult to be selected."

Afterwards, Shen Tuming introduced me to the format of the qualifying competition.

The so-called qualifying match is actually a qualifying match + qualifying match. Each person has to participate in three ranking matches, which is actually to solve three cases, and finally according to the completion of the case, they are ranked to Black Iron (solve 0 pieces), Bronze (solve 1 case), Silver (solve 2 pieces) and Gold (solve 3 pieces) in order. Then the four ranks are from low to high, and the qualifying competition is carried out in turn, that is, the 1V1 competition. The top 10 in each rank has a chance to challenge the next rank, and the challenged person must fight, and if they win, the two sides will be swapped.

This means that even if the qualifying match is set to Black Iron, as long as your own strength is strong enough, you still have a chance to rise to gold after many challenges. Of course, if you have such strength, how can you not solve a single case?

The conditions for entering the Supernatural Association are that there are two or more people in the sect who have become the golden rank, and the total number of members is not limited. If there are fewer than two entrants in a faction, they must be in the top 10 in the Gold Qualifying Event, which is the final top 10 in the entire Ranked Match.

This condition seems to be set specifically for me. Sure enough, I suffered a loss from a small number of people!

Contestants in the Qualifying Tournament must be young people under the age of 30, which is consistent with the assessment of the Paranormal Association. It seems that the Paranormal Association pays more attention to the future, and even does not hesitate to rely on the ability of young people to reshuffle the cards. The old-timers of some sects have great personal strength, but they don't have excellent disciples, so it is obviously impossible to get in.

I can't help but wonder, could it be that there will really be something big in the supernatural circle in the future, and we must start preparing now?

After listening to Shen Tuming, I couldn't help but sigh: "Who came up with this idea, the game is too much, right?" ”

Shen Tuming said with a smile: "Hehe, for young people, of course, you have to use the competition system that young people like." ”

"When does the placement start ?

"The second half of the year."

It happened to be after my college entrance examination, and I thought to myself, maybe it's because there are many young disciples who want to take the high school and college entrance examinations, right?

Shen Tuming also told me that his first qualifying match had been arranged by him, and it was the case he asked me to investigate, so I should repay his favor. The case is related to the disciples of Tianyi Sect, and it has been one after another in recent months

One day, an excellent disciple of the Tianyi Sect disappeared, and Shen Tuming wanted me to investigate clearly.

"Why don't you investigate for yourselves?" I asked.

"Hey, it's hard for a Qing official to cut off family affairs." Shen Tuming sighed, "I suspect that this matter involves the high-level of Tianyi Sect, so I can only have no worries if I find an outsider to investigate." I'll give you the details in a few days, and you can start your investigation at any time. Even if you have passed your first qualifying match, you don't have to wait until the second half of the year. ”

"I'm ...... Pull strings? ”

"Haha, sort of." Shen Tuming laughed twice, "At the beginning, I helped you, just to make your master owe me a favor, but then this case happened, and I thought of you." I didn't expect you to take advantage of it. ”

Shen Tuming didn't stay at my house too much. A few days later, the supernatural circle officially released the news of the qualifying match, and I read the rules of the game after the writing was written, which was very different from what Shen Tuming said, but the description of the three qualifying matches was more detailed - the first was completed independently, the second was a two-person cooperation, and the third was a three-person cooperation, which shows that the difficulty of the case will become higher and higher. Once you've completed a qualifying match, you can apply for the next one at any time, and then you'll be randomly divided into groups based on who applied at the time. Each qualifying match is timed for one month from the time of application, and all three matches must be completed by the end of the year. Qualifying is expected to begin early next year.

After July 1, everyone will be able to claim their first Placement Event. But Shen Tuming told me that he was the supervisor of my first game, and that I just had to pick up the case in the program, and the case had already been decided. If I'm done by July 1st, he'll pick a suitable time to report and then I'll be ready to go and apply for a second session.

Tsk, naked dark box operation!

This competition, involving the young people of the whole supernatural circle, is dozens of times larger than the scale assessed by the supernatural association. A conservative estimate is that the number of entries should be in the four digits or higher. It is immeasurable to stand out among these people and become a top 10.

Master, Master, do you have so much faith in me? Why agree......

Not long after the news of the competition was released, Lin Siqi called me again: "You got the news, right?" ”

"Roger." I also told her about Shen Tuming's request to handle the case, because I trusted her very much.

"Awesome, I'll go through the back door." Lin Siqi joked, "Are you still locking yourself up at home?" ”

I said in a deep voice, "I don't really want to go out." ”

But Lin Siqi's next words made me a little shaken: "Teacher Ba is awake, don't you plan to go see her together?" ”

Although Ba Po usually scolds me the most, I have never hated her because she is a responsible teacher. She was injured this time, I have a lot of responsibility, the female ghost was sent by the Fat Foot Daoist, and the Fat Foot Daoist came at me again.

For whatever reason, I had to visit her.

After a long silence, I finally spoke, "When?" ”