Chapter 4: The Tainted Book of Destiny
After chatting for a while, Fang Rui's home has arrived, Bai Jingjing parked the car and followed Fang Rui to the downstairs of his house, Fang Rui's community is a very old residential building, most of the lights in the aisles of the building are broken and there is no property to repair, and the building is very dim at night at six o'clock. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
Fang Rui's amblyopia finally aimed at the keyhole in the dim environment, opened the door, as soon as the door opened, Philip had already jumped to the door, and after seeing Fang Rui and Bai Jingjing, he immediately asked, "Did you buy canned cat?" I'm starving! β
"Haha, you Philip still have to eat canned cats? But the cat's appearance is so cute! Bai Jingjing is also a female creature, and when she saw the fluffy star-sighting person, she was also overflowing with love, and she stepped forward with a doting face, picked up Philip and put her in her arms, and rubbed it vigorously.
"Meow~~! Let go of me, I'm going to suffocate! Poor Philip was squeezed into Bai Jingjing's big breasts so that her face was changed, and she looked like she had nothing to love. Fang Rui turned his head and couldn't bear to look at Philip's miserable appearance, but Bai Jingjing was not offended by him taking the teacher, so he could only sacrifice Philip.
Finally, after Bai Jingjing finished stroking and putting down Philip, Fang Rui had the opportunity to immediately stuff the opened can of cat food to Philip and use food to dissipate his anger.
Bai Jingjing stood in Fang Rui's room and turned around: "The place where you live is really shabby, why don't you move to the bookstore to live, anyway, there is still a room on the second floor of the wooden house!" β
"No, I'm used to living here!" Fang Rui immediately shook his head and refused, although living here not only has to pay the rent but also often looks at the face of the landlord's aunt, but after all, it is a normal living environment, besides, Fang Rui didn't plan to do the work of the bookstore all the time, he always thought that he would terminate the contract if he had the opportunity.
As he spoke, there was a creaking sound like old gears turning in the toilet sink, and the female ghost in the sewer spun out like a twisted flower.
"There are a lot of non-human creatures in your room!" Bai Jingjing sighed.
"I don't want to!" Fang Rui replied with some heartache.
Bai Jingjing didn't dislike the ghost of the female ghost at all, and walked up to greet her happily, the two whispered and didn't know what they were talking about, anyway, in the end, the female ghost looked very excited and returned to the sewer.
"What are you talking about?" Fang Rui asked curiously.
"Don't you know that girls can't inquire about whispers between them?" Bai Jingjing glanced at Fang Rui, looking like you were a stinky boy and hurriedly walked away.
Fang Rui, who was bored, could only squat down and touch the snoring Philip, who was snoring, Philip looked up at Fang Rui and asked, "You are a bookstore clerk now?" β
"Well, sort of!" Fang Rui nodded, then pointed at Bai Jingjing and said, "She is my teacher." β
"This idiot is going to trouble you in the future!" Fei Fei suddenly turned to Bai Jingjing with a solemn face.
Bai Jingjing was stunned for a moment, and immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will take good care of him entrusted by Lord Feifei." β
"Philip!" Fang Rui didn't expect Philip to care so much about him, and he was immediately moved to tears.
"Ouch, don't think about it, I just don't want you, the shovel officer who gave me food and drink for free, to hang up! It's also a hassle to find another one! After Fiffei finished speaking, he lowered his head and began to eat, completely ignoring Fang Rui, who was smirking beside him.
As she was talking, Bai Jingjing sniffed and said, "Yo, it's here!" β
Fang Rui immediately stood up, a smell of blood as strong as last night was coming in through the crack in the door, and heavy footsteps appeared again.
"Fang Rui, take a good look, how am I in charge of the bookstore's external affairs?" After Bai Jingjing finished speaking, she rolled up her sleeves and looked like she was going to fight.
With a snap, Bai Jingjing's hands were folded, and her whole body suddenly changed back to her real body, pink skeleton, but in just a second, it changed into a human body, and then a real body, just like the computer screen kept switching, Bai Jingjing kept alternating between the pink skeleton and the human body. Slowly, a hissing sound like electricity came from within her, and a book with a half-three-dimensional skull face on a pink cover floated out of the center of her eyebrows.
"Open!" Bai Jingjing let out a low sigh, the white bone book slowly opened, and a golden white bone claw was stretched out from the book, attached to Bai Jingjing's right palm, and at the same time, the door of Fang Rui's house was knocked open by an external force, and a strange creature stumbled into the dark corridor. Let's say it's human, it still has a human shape, but the flesh and skin of the whole person seem to have been sliced into countless pieces, but it has not been cut off from the bones, in Fang Rui's eyes, this is simply a meat sausage that has been cut by a thousand knives, and each piece of meat is only one millimeter thick.
This man's knife work is really good! Fang Rui picked up Philip and hid in the corner while thinking about it, the immortals fought and mortals suffered, for the sake of his life, Fang Rui felt that the farther away he was from the two of them, the better, if it weren't for the monster just blocking the door, he really wanted to get out of the door.
The blood dripping from the monster's body hit the floor with a particularly strange rhythm, giving goosebumps and a tingling sensation in the head. Feeling that Fei Fei in his arms was twisting his body very uneasily, Fang Rui looked at Bai Jingjing who had already rushed forward with some worry.
As soon as the golden bone claw touched the monster's body, it let out a piercing metallic whistling sound, and Bai Jingjing frowned and immediately jumped away. The touch just now was like plucking a very tight string, which made Bai Jingjing dislike it very much, and the whistling sound of the metal not only made people feel a headache but also faintly made people feel impetuous.
The monster took a few more steps forward, not as fast as it walked, but with each step it seemed to pull its body, making slices of flesh stretch and stretch like accordions, emitting that nasty metallic whistling.
Bai Jingjing stepped forward again, this time she closed her hearing at the same time, but as soon as the golden bone claw touched the monster's body, the sound came into Bai Jingjing's mind again. The sound doesn't travel through the ears, it's more like it goes straight into the soul.
Fang Rui's left hand tightly hugged Philip and his right hand blocked his ear, but the sound still came from his left ear. Philip let out a hoarse meow, apparently feeling uncomfortable as well.
Bai Jingjing withdrew her hand with some annoyance, the monster in front of her couldn't be touched, and the sound made when she touched it would make people have a headache and panic. The opening of the Book of Fortunes requires the user's attentiveness the most, and this disturbing sound makes the golden bone claws tend to detach from their palms. This doesn't work, you can't make it speak! Bai Jingjing lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then immediately ran to Fang Rui and asked, "How long can you hold your breath?" β
"Huh?" Fang Rui was a little confused, why did he come to him and ask him such a strange question after hitting him so much twice.
"Answer me!" Bai Jingjing didn't have time to explain, the monster had already walked less than three steps away from them.
"Half a minute!" Fang Rui immediately replied.
Bai Jingjing bowed her head and said to Fei Fei: "You also hold it together!" β
After speaking, without waiting for Fang Rui to ask Bai Jingjing's left hand to grasp it tightly before unfolding, a whirlpool-like thing appeared in her palm, and the next moment Fang Rui immediately understood the reason why Bai Jingjing was holding his breath. Because this guy actually pumped the air from the entire room into the vortex in the palm of her hand.
In just three seconds, Bai Jingjing had already drained the air from the entire room and released a small enchantment, covering several of them inside. At the same time, the monster had already walked in front of Bai Jingjing, and she slashed her right hand at the monster like a sword, this time without the transmission of air as a medium, the sound could not be made. The sliced pieces of flesh on the monster's body were as hard as reeds, but no matter how hard they were, they were not the opponents of Bai Jingjing's golden bone claws, without the interference of sound, Bai Jingjing cut the monster in half like cutting a watermelon, and in Bai Sensen's bones and a pile of flesh, Fang Rui saw a book with strings on the cover, stuck in the monster's body.
Bai Jingjing stepped on the monster's head with one foot, stretched out the book in the monster's body with one hand, and pulled it out of the monster's body, and at the same time, the vortex in the palm of Bai Jingjing's left hand spun a few times, and the air returned to the room.
Fang Rui, who was gasping for breath, walked to Bai Jingjing's side, looked at the book that was still dripping with blood in her hand, and then looked at the monster on the ground, it slowly returned to its normal human form, revealing the face of a middle-aged man with vicissitudes.
"Bun shop, freezer." The middle-aged man actually spit out a few words at Fang Rui with a smile, and then slowly turned into some foam and finally disappeared on the floor without a trace.
"What is this?" Fang Ruiwen was still admiring Bai Jingjing on the cover of the book, the strings on the cover made Bai Jingjing couldn't help but pluck it, and suddenly there was a sound of music like heaven, which made people feel refreshed and happy.
"The book of life, every living being will have its own life book, and it will show the most skillful skill of the living soul before its death." Bai Jingjing replied.
"This book has strings, does it mean that this middle-aged man was good at musical instruments before he was born?" Fang Rui was not stupid, he immediately thought of it.
"Well, that's right. It's just that his life book is polluted, which is why he will become a monster like the one just now. My field work is usually to decontaminate the contaminated books and bring them back to the bookstore. Bai Jingjing explained.
"Why is the book of life polluted? Did you touch something dirty? Fang Rui asked.
"I guess I touched dirty things, but there are many kinds of dirty things, both external and internal, and I can't explain it for a while. One thing is certain, however, that this book of life was tainted by the resentment of the deceased itself. According to you human beings, this person is angry and becomes a ghost when he dies, and looking at his death is like being cut by a thousand knives, it is strange if you don't complain! Bai Jingjing said, took out a wooden box from her backpack and carefully put the book of life inside.
"This wooden box is made of Fuso wood, Fuso knows? It is made up of two large mulberry trees that support each other. The sun goddess Xihe drove up for her son Jin Crow from here, and it is also the place where Jin Crow rests, symbolizing the cycle of life. The book of fortune can only be preserved for a long time in a wooden box of Fuso. Bai Jingjing explained.
"What about the books in the bookstore? There is no use of Fuso wooden box! Fang Rui asked curiously.
"The library is not an ordinary human world, so you don't need Fusang wood." After Bai Jingjing finished speaking, she put the wooden box into her backpack and touched Philip's head and said, "Okay, I'm going back when the work is done, goodbye Philip." β
"Hey, what about that middle-aged man? What did he mean by the bun shop freezer? Fang Rui grabbed Bai Jingjing and asked.
"Cut, I'm not responsible for your people's affairs, I just need to take back the book!" Bai Jingjing waved her hand at Fang Rui very chic and left.
It's really irresponsible! Fang Rui sighed helplessly, in fact, he also guessed the meaning of the middle-aged man's words, but as an ordinary person, he couldn't directly rush into the bun shop and ask to check all the freezers, right! Fang Rui suddenly had a flash of inspiration, he didn't have the right to do this, but where was the legendary relevant department? Thinking of this, Fang Rui couldn't help but proudly push the glasses on the bridge of his nose.
Three days later, the steamed bun shop opposite Fang Rui came to a surprise inspection because the health and quarantine department received an anonymous report that there was smuggled rare animal meat in the steamed bun shop, and a corpse was found in the freezer. The owner of the steamed bun shop, a young man in his thirties who dropped out of a well-known university in Kyoto, confessed to the crime of killing and mutilating the body of the murderer, and the deceased was the lover of the murderer's mother, a man with a serious maternal complex, who killed the person he thought might rob her in order to monopolize his mother. After dropping out of the medical department, he not only killed people, but also used his knowledge to slice and chop up corpses, which according to him was convenient for him to throw corpses.
Fang Rui didn't know how much the owner of the bun shop loved his mother to kill people and break the corpse, Fang Rui was raised by his grandmother since he was a child, and his parents had no concept for him, since his grandmother died when he was five years old, Fang Rui was an orphan, and such a strong love and being loved was a luxury for him.
Putting the only remaining photo with his grandmother back in the drawer, Fang Rui felt that his memory of his grandmother was a little blurry, maybe it was the terrible fire that took away not only Fang Rui's only relative but also many memories of his childhood, the doctor also said that the great changes in childhood at a young age can easily make children close or even forget some things. The only thing I never forgot was my grandmother's warm hands and the white cat. But fortunately, Philip appeared, whether it was a cat or something else, Fang Rui always stubbornly thought that it was the white cat and returned. Thinking about it, Fang Rui slowly fell asleep, in his sleep Fang Rui seemed to see the middle-aged uncle again, only this time he did not become a terrible monster, but sat there with a smile and played the violin, the sound of the piano was very pleasant, and after the song was finished, the middle-aged uncle actually bowed to Fang Rui and then turned around and disappearedγγγγγγ