Text Chapter 9 The Trip to Sanyuan Mountain
Is there such a person who you desperately want to refuse, but you can't refuse. When she speaks, you do whatever she says.
ββExcerpt from "Chen Ling's Assistant Diary"
Two days later, Feifengling.
An old-school G300 sedan is carrying Xiushen and Chen Ling, who have just gotten off the plane, walking on the mountain road, and it is a four-hour drive from the airport to the hot spring villa in Baifengling. The driver was the staff of the hot spring villa, who seemed to be a more wooden person, except for saying hello when they first met, and stopped talking when they officially drove the car. At the beginning, Chen Ling was still enjoying the scenery outside the window with great interest, but after a long time, he felt bored, and wanted to doze off in the car, but the mountain road was too bumpy, and he couldn't sleep. Chen Ling, who had nothing to do, had to chat with Xiushen.
"Xiushen, it's so boring, I said that I was going to go on vacation, but I didn't even have a group member, so there was no atmosphere." Chen Ling complained.
"Big brother, the villa is haunted, which group dares to bring guests here, in case something happens." It just so happened that Xiushen was also bored, so he didn't exclude chatting with Chen Ling.
"Is it really fun over here? Except that the mountain is the mountain, I don't see anything special. Chen Ling asked.
"You know what, these mountains are not naturally formed, they are all by-products of the war between man and god hundreds of years ago, just look at the battlefield ruins to know how tragic the battle was back then, and it is not a myth to move mountains and seas." Xiushen replied.
"Were the ancients really so powerful?" Chen Ling questioned Xiushen's description.
"Don't underestimate the ancients, in that era, the power of thermal weapons was extremely weakened, and on the premise of not using nuclear weapons, they could still fight a tie with magical creatures, and even gain an advantage in some battlefields, even in the later era of high demons when gods and Buddhas descended into the world, although human beings were at a disadvantage, they could still fight for a hundred years, and the strength of the ancients was actually far better than that of the current demon slayer." Xiushen still admires those predecessors in ancient times.
"After all, the aura was much more abundant at that time than it is now." Chen Ling disagreed.
"As my magicsman's assistant, don't say such superficial things." It was rare for Chen Ling to ask some serious words, and Xiushen was also willing to give some answers. "In those days, the ancients faced demons with unknown abilities, and the characteristics of each demon needed to be tested by human blood, and every battle was a tug-of-war of flesh and blood. The Hundred Years' War was a few simple words when you were studying, but in the eyes of us demon slayers, it was a glorious history of warfare. At that time, many superb spells were born, and many amazing geniuses were born, but because of the fall of wars, those spells had no chance to be handed down at all, so they were cut off. β
"I think those superb spells are so powerful, if I can learn them, hahaha..." Chen Ling couldn't help but yearn for it, but when he thought of his situation, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed. It's a pity that I don't have any spiritual power at all, so I can't learn spells at all. β
Xiushen shook his head and said: "In fact, in that era, the way of communicating aura was very different from now, and most of the current demon slayers relied on excellent bloodlines to communicate aura. In ancient times, through continuous research and exploration, people summarized many ways to have spiritual power. β
"Is there still circulation? Can I learn? As soon as he heard that he seemed to have the possibility of mastering spiritual power, Chen Ling immediately had a spirit again.
"It's a pity that most of them were gradually lost in the later wars, and most of the remaining ones also existed in the hands of the gods and demons, which seems to be the result of the gods and demons on purpose. After the First War of Man and God, although they withdrew from the earth, their influence did not disappear, and they were still planning the invasion of the earth behind the scenes. Cutting off the inheritance of human magic is one of its strategies. β
Chen Ling heard the news and leaned back to his seat in frustration, "Saying it is equivalent to saying it in vain, hey... I'll just daydream. β
"If it's really so easy to master spiritual power, then demon slayer isn't everywhere, how can it be so precious. Moreover, in times of peace, it is not a good thing for too many people to have supernatural powers, which is very difficult to control and easy to cause conflicts and contradictions. Xiushen said with a smile.
"Demon slayers are so precious, they're very profitable, right?" Chen Ling obviously only remembered that the first half of Xiushen's sentence was precious, and ignored that the second half of the sentence was difficult to control.
"Money," Xiushen pondered, "It's not a lot, at least I think it's very little." β
"Please, eldest sister, you earned more than six million last night, a lot, okay? It's an overnight rich. Chen Ling rolled his eyes and retorted.
"Is it a lot? Compared to real estate developers, these are just a drizzle. Xiushen obviously disagreed with Chen Ling's opinion. The office building project, the real estate company alone invested 700 million yuan in the early stage, if the later real estate development is good, it is not a problem to sell about 1500 million, my money, in their opinion, is not worth mentioning at all. If that's too expensive, they'll have to find some third-rate exorcists or a public slayer to solve it. β
Chen Ling recalled the resentful spirit supervisor he faced two days ago, and it was obvious that the third-rate demon exterminator would not be enough to plug his teeth at all, and once there were casualties at that time, the medical subsidy alone would be an astronomical amount. "Then why don't you ask the public demon eradication department, the public sector demon exorcism should be much cheaper than you, and it is said that the effect is also very good."
"Their effect is good, but the public demon elimination department mainly faces the general public, and its own business volume is very large. And every day the project is stopped, the real estate company will lose nearly one million, not counting the bank interest, rather than losing this money, it is better to give me this money, I will help them get rid of the demons, they can also start work in time, reducing the loss of manpower. "Speaking of his own job, Xiushen is a little proud." A demon slayer like me, the demon removal cycle is short, the demon removal effect is good, the degree of damage is small, and the next day can start work smoothly, although it is a little more expensive, but it is expensive! β
"That Xiushen, how did this resentful spirit like last time come to be?" Chen Ling asked again.
"It's not the wraith, it's the lamp." Xiushen replied. "If there is no palace lamp, it is estimated that the resentful spirit of the director will not be able to condense, and even if it can be condensed, it will not be as powerful as it is now, and it will dissipate many years ago." Xiushen paused slightly and continued. "I have studied the palace lamp, and I can be sure that it is a product of the high demon era, and its main role should be to act on people's spirits, so that people can enter a certain mental state, and it should be a product of a certain Buddhist family."
"Isn't Buddhism a sect that stood on our side in the era of high demons? How could such a monster appear? When Chen Ling heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt.
Xiushen glanced at Chen Ling and replied: "Regardless of the teachings of Buddhism, as far as the Dharma Weapon is concerned, the Dharma Weapon itself does not distinguish between good and evil, if you use it for evil, it will be evil, and if you take it for good, it will be good." There are clouds in ancient books: the green lantern ancient Buddha has survived, and the green lantern should be this kind of lamp. Buddhism pays attention to meditation, and after lighting the lamp, it can help practitioners to enter meditation faster, enter the Buddha country and ask the Buddha from their hearts. But it's clear that someone knows about this and takes advantage of it. β
"Sounds like this lamp is normal, not at all as evil as it looked like before?"
"The lamp itself is also normal, but some people feel that they can become Buddhas themselves, and they regard the subordinates of the company as believers. I checked the information before, and the office building was originally an Internet company, and it worked overtime for a long time. I think it was probably the supervisor over there who invited this lamp for the sake of performance, and then lit the lamp to confuse his subordinates, so that people would be proud of their dedication to the company and proud of working overtime. I didn't expect him to do it, and the company's corporate culture was transformed into some kind of doctrine, and the company's subordinates became believers, and I think their group should be called 'overtime teaching'. After that, the belief of the subordinates fed back the lamp, and it actually formed an illusion similar to the Buddha country. Later, after several financial crises, the capital chain of the network company was broken, unfortunately bankrupt, the company's employees were dismissed, and the supervisor jumped off the building to commit suicide, and his soul was sheltered by the lamp, and a touch of true spirit was immortalized. There are already quite a few people in it before you, including a few well-known exorcists. At this point, Xiushen shook his head and sighed.
"Boss, desperately employing people and then exploiting employees, and even tricking employees into working overtime at the end of their lives, don't you feel familiar with these things?" Chen Ling asked with grievances. "Aren't you afraid that I'll come back to you when I die?"
When Xiushen heard this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "First of all, as my assistant to the demon slayer, I will surpass you after you die, and then watch you ascend to heaven, and promise not to let you linger in this world, which is a small employee benefit. Secondly, those employees working overtime is the result of the supervisor using green lantern to confuse the public, and you are working overtime..."Saying that, Xiushen turned to look at Chen Ling, and then gently picked up Chen Ling's chin with a finger. "Didn't you do it willingly?"
The old radio of the classic car played soothing music, and time seemed to stop for a moment, and the late summer sun shone on Xiushen's face through the leaves of Sanyuan Mountain, and the change of light and shadow made the people in front of him more gorgeous, but he showed a bit of innocence in his expression. Her eyeshadow was so good-looking, peach-colored, and she looked at herself with a smile, which made Chen Ling think of the words she learned when she was a child. Her lipstick is also good-looking, I don't know what shade, this luster is like a cake coated with rose cream, it looks so sweet, I want to take a bite. Chen Ling looked at Xiushen with a smile on the corner of her mouth in front of her, knowing that she was bewitching herself, but she couldn't refuse at all.
"Yes, I willingly." Chen Ling had lost his ability to think, and only replied mechanically.
If Xiushen wants to demagogue, he doesn't need to light any lights, just pick his fingers.