"I think even if we coerce and lure Master Zhang, this Master Zhang is also a person who has passed through the world, he refuses to say or just doesn't tell the truth, and we have no way to treat him, so Master Zhang's important clues in this regard can only be lost."

"It can be said that this Master Zhang is estimated to have something happen sooner or later, he knows too much, and he has a lot of handles, even if he has a network of economic interests, but he comes in too high-profile and arrogant, it is inevitable that he will offend people and make some enemies, so if he goes on like this, someone may clean him up, and sooner or later something will happen."

"I think so."

"Isn't Ji Ran just the two of us at noon today? Why did Zhou Xuran come. ”

"I didn't ask him out." It will really ruin the atmosphere, Ji Ran pouted and said.

Zhou Xuran sat next to me, and he beckoned to the waiter: "Add me a business meal." ”

Zhou Xuran has always been very calm and eats a simple meal for one person and remains silent.

"Zhou Xuran, why don't you ask Ji Ran about what is going on with Master Zhang?"

"I don't think there's anything to be gained." Zhou Xuran said very briefly as usual, and I suddenly understood what Ji Ran said before, looking at him with a look of me knowing everything, and I was angry.

"Then dear Boss Zhou, why don't you ask me, a new employee of your company, how is my work doing." I asked a little weird, Zhou Xuran just wiped the corners of his mouth gently, and then glanced at his famous watch that could be expensive and said more indifferently: "There is still half an hour of noon break to end, I think you should be ready to pack up and go back to the company now, otherwise it is not good to be late as a newcomer." ”

I got up a little puffy, "Don't worry, I'm going to go back now, big boss." ”

"Yinglin, I'll send you." Ji Ran got up and prepared to leave with me.

"I'm done eating, too, and we're just walking together. Yinglin, Editor-in-Chief Cao's personality is like that, but people are not bad, as long as you work hard to do your job well, he will not embarrass you, and it is inevitable that there will be a process of adaptation when you go to a new company.

Besides, I think the position that Editor-in-Chief Cao arranged with you is really incompetent for others, but you can, and I think it is just right for you, I haven't thought about it so thoughtfully, and found such a suitable position for you. I know you're going to do a good job, in the afternoon you go and sort out the news that you think is valuable, and the associated events, and in the evening we'll go to the house to find you. ”

"Yinglin, what kind of work has been arranged for you, your face stinks now." Ji Ran suddenly became interested: "It's your business, don't leave quickly." I didn't see the big boss educating newcomers here. How dare I be too late. I was busy all day during the day, and I had to work again at night, I was really tired and tired, this work was really hard to do, and this meal was so unpalatable. ”

I knew in my heart that what Zhou Xuran said was reasonable, but he was angry with such a preachy look, I looked angry, he just smiled helplessly after listening to it, and he didn't know what to do with me.

In the evening, the three of us gathered at the house. Ji Ran was a little sad: "Every time I come here, I am a little sad, I always think of the scene of my uncle, when my uncle is still there, this place can be described as a city, even if my uncle doesn't ask about the world, but there are still a bunch of people every day, and now it is very clean." I didn't expect my uncle to leave so suddenly, in fact, I have the deepest relationship with my uncle, I didn't expect that in the last few days I talked back to him, didn't follow him, I regret it. ”

"That's not it, I can clearly remember now that when Ji Gongzi first saw me, he looked super contemptuous of me."

"Can Yang Yinglin, don't keep talking about this matter, I don't see that people are sad, so I can't comfort me, why are you so inconsiderate."

"That's how I am, don't you know me? Okay, Ji Ran, don't remember the past, come and let me comfort you. ”

"Hey, your comfort is really perfunctory."

"Then it's not perfunctory, life is so precious, so we can't waste time, if we don't hurry up and find a way to eliminate the evil qi and seal the evil spirits, it is estimated that we will also go down to reunite with Master Fang in the near future."

As soon as I finished saying this, Ji Ran glared at me: "You are the terminator of the topic, you are really fast in this atmosphere, I think you are colder than Zhou Xuran." ”

"Master Zhang, there is a clue that has been broken for the time being, Ji Ran, I asked you to look for it before, there is no place where the aura is very evil like the ancient building of the Republic of China, it may be a place where evil spirits gather, what happened to you."

"There have also been some rumors in these places, but I haven't personally gone to the scene to verify them."

"As soon as possible, Yinglin, the news you collected over there, have you found anything very unusual, filter it out, these may be signs of the next round of evil qi, we must deal with it as soon as possible now, and not give the evil spirits a chance to gather and absorb the evil qi."

I took out a bunch of them, "The news of these events seems to be unusual, but I just preliminarily screened them out, and I didn't verify them" Zhou Xuran took it and took a rough look: "Recently, evil spirits have begun to appear in the world, so the surging evil spirit has caused many unjust souls to gather, and many supernatural events have occurred frequently, I will arrange to explore the truth of these news as soon as possible." ”

"Have you noticed a short piece of news today, this is the news?"

"Recently, another traveler disappeared in Mashan, after 24 hours of search and rescue has not found relevant traces, the recent foggy weather, the ground is slippery and some areas of Mashan have not been fully developed, many cliffs, experts remind backpackers to pay attention to mountaineering safety, minimize steep peak climbing, it is best to travel together to avoid accidents."

After Ji Ran read the news, he looked at me: "There is nothing unusual, now many backpackers are often used to going alone, and there are many accidents such as landslides and bad luck." ”

"Is it because of Mashan?" Zhou Xuran looked at me: "Mashan seems to be not far from your hometown, there were rumors about that mountain before, you should know better than us." ”

"Mashan? Why is the name a little familiar," Ji Ran muttered to himself, "I said, among the few places I have collected evil rumors in the past few days, there is Ma Shan. ”

"Mashan is so famous in our place, and the people around us call it Lingshan." I think I probably have the most say in the matter of Mashan.

"When I was a child, I lived in my grandparents' house, which was very close to Mashan, and people in the nearby villages said that there were spirits living on Mashan, and this news has been around for a long time. There are a lot of rumors about Mashan that people in the village have talked about, and some of them are more famous, such as someone in a nearby village who has some strange and incurable demons, as long as the patient's family goes to Mashan to worship devoutly, they will get the magic medicine given by the spirit god. It is rumored that the spirit god will transform into a person in various forms but will not reveal its true appearance, give the villagers magic medicine, and help some people in the village to cure some strange diseases, so the villagers donated money to repair the spirit temple in Mashan, and the temple is said to enshrine the tablet of the spirit god.

I clearly remember that when I was a child, every year the people in the village would spontaneously go to the mountain to worship, the incense of the spiritual temple has been very vigorous, and the ceremony of inviting the great immortal will be held every year, very pious, my ancestral neighbor Aunt Zhuang's family and even her own home enshrined the tablet of the spirit god, when she came to my grandmother's house, she often said that she had an inexplicable head disease in the early years, and the pain was dead and alive, how to cure it can not be cured, Uncle Zhuang knelt in the spirit temple of Mashan for one night, moved the spirit god, and the spirit god turned into a child and gave Uncle Zhuang a bowl of divine water, Aunt Zhuang will be fine after drinking the divine water, so Aunt Zhuang's family is particularly pious in worshipping the spirit god. ”

"You say so, that Aunt Zhuang's family has really seen the spirit god, and the so-called spirit god in Mashan is really so effective? Aren't there bad rumors? Ji Ran was a little skeptical when he heard what I said.

"No, it's all about the gods saving people, and we all say that Mashan is a sacred mountain."

"Then what does your grandfather think about this, he should have the most right to speak, and many people in the village have said that they have seen it, have you seen it when you were young?" "I don't know if I've seen it."

Ji Ran stared at me with wide eyes, "Is there really one?" ”

"My grandfather has always cared not much about the affairs of the spirits, and even said that they were caused by spirits, and he never let our family participate in the ceremony of worshiping the spirits on Mashan, and even the neighbor Aunt Zhuang's house, he didn't like it very much, and he didn't want my grandmother and Aunt Zhuang to interact with each other.

But my grandmother used to tell me like a story when I was younger, my grandfather didn't hear from me for a few years, my grandmother had a hard time with her children, and Aunt Zhuang's family helped us a lot, and my grandfather was very grateful to them, and then he started to talk to them. Aunt Zhuang is very pious, and she bows to the spirit god every day, even in the age of material scarcity, she will invite a big guest in that room on the 15th of every month, that is, to invite the spirit god. She was not afraid to talk about these things at all, but my grandfather was very taboo and never let me go to Aunt Zhuang's house.

Children are curious, and the more they are not allowed to do things, the more they want to find out. When I was a child, there was a time when Aunt Zhuang's family invited the great god, I took advantage of the grandparents not paying attention, secretly ran in, lying on the window outside the house to peek, it was dark, I saw that in addition to the spiritual position in the house as Aunt Zhuang usually said, there was a table in the middle of the room, and there were many dishes on the table, at first Aunt Zhuang and Uncle Zhuang kept kneeling on the ground, and did not look up and read more like talking to himself, I looked at it for a while and felt that it was not interesting to prepare to leave, at this time, the candle lit in the house suddenly went out, because it was dark at night, Uncle Zhuang and Aunt Zhuang didn't speak just bowed their heads and knelt, I suddenly heard a small sound in the room, the voice was very sharp and thin, not like the sound of a normal person, I was very sure that no one else had entered the house during this period, I stood on tiptoe and wanted to find out from the window, but in the darkness I saw eyes that would glow, I saw something that looked like a person and did not look like a person, because it was very dark inside, the figure was blurred, but it was not as tall as an adult, the eyes were unusual, how could a person's eyes glow in the middle of the night. ”