Chapter 1: The Midnight Train

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In fact, many times, I can't tell if something really happened or if it's just in my fantasy, the only thing I know for sure is that I remember all the details of it, and how everyone ended up in the end. Maybe some of them are something I'd like to recall, and some of them I'll never want to talk about again, but anyway, they happened anyway, and I shouldn't let them be buried in the dust, whether I want to or not, and that's why I wrote this book.

I'm not in the story, but I'm everywhere in the story, but who am I? If I've ever been in this story, why, I don't know which character I'm in the story. If I hadn't been in the story, the question of why I was able to tell all the details of the story in such a way has been bothering me for a long time, and that's why I'm reluctant to write about it, but day by day, when everything accumulates, a mysterious force finally makes me have to write this story, and I don't care which character I appear in this story. Luckily, I remember the names of each of the characters in this story, and in the rest of the narrative, I won't describe who I am, I'll just tell you about everyone who has appeared in this story. And the story, just like that, begins.

Huang Jun slowly walked into the train station. It's an old train station, with a disgusting musty smell in every corner, and since it's midnight, there are very few people in the station. But that didn't stop him from being interested. As a Guardian, he has an inexplicable affinity for such an environment. Yes, it's kind. Every city has a guardian, which is an unwritten rule in the spirit world. Although no one in the modern bustling city will know about their existence, of course, even if they do, they will not care, who would believe that in this world, there really is a spiritual world, and there will really be guardians/? Except for the Guardians themselves, no ordinary person would understand the profession.

Thinking of his identity as a guardian, the corners of Huang Jun's mouth couldn't help but hook an arc. Before the age of eighteen, Huang Jun, like most ordinary people in this city, never knew what a guardian was, and of course, he didn't believe that there were forces and existences in this world that were incomprehensible to ordinary people. Even if he had taken it seriously, I'm afraid that after a few years, he would have forgotten it long ago, if it weren't for Grandpa's sudden departure, I'm afraid he would never have been exposed to any information about the Guardian for the rest of his life.

But this day still came, Huang Jun's grandfather was an old Kuomintang officer, who had been criticized before, but the reason for being criticized at that time was not to collaborate with the enemy and treason, but to advocate bourgeois feudal superstition, the reason is very simple, because the old man was a down-and-out Taoist priest when he was young, and was later enlisted by the Kuomintang Zhuang Ding, after the Kuomintang was defeated, the old man retired from the army, but did not join the army again, but quietly returned to the countryside alone, lived a secluded life, lived in a dilapidated Taoist temple, and usually prayed for the villagers to exorcise evil spirits and pray for a living. This is a typical god stick. Even when Huang Jun first heard this story, he thought that the old man was simply a down-and-out god. But since this god stick is his own grandfather, Huang Jun's heart will inevitably have more sympathy.

Later, the old man married a wife and had children, Huang Jun's father was born, after the reform and opening up, the old man slowly did some small business, and his family was also solid, and life passed day by day, until, one day, the old man finally ran out of oil. Huang Jun was still at school that night, and suddenly received a call from his father, who didn't say anything, only dropped a sentence: "Come back by plane tomorrow, your grandfather will not be able to do it", Huang Jun's father is an extremely filial person, not to mention that this is the old man's wish before he died, so he gave Huang Jun such an order with a black face. That night, Huang Jun immediately bought the most expensive plane ticket, flew from Beijing to Chongqing, which cost him half a year's food expenses, and when Huang Jun arrived home, grandpa had only the last breath left, the strange thing is that grandpa broke everyone away, and finally handed Huang Jun a package, pointed to himself, and pointed to Huang Jun, with a strange look flashing in his eyes, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything, and then kicked his legs, and he couldn't wake up. Everyone in the family seemed to be completely unaware of this, and they didn't even pay attention to it. Three days later, when his grandfather was buried, Huang Jun returned to school and opened the package, which contained nothing but a worn-out old book and a letter written in beautiful block letters. The letter was naturally written by Huang Jun's grandfather, but looking at the handwriting on it, it didn't seem to be new, it seemed to have been written for a while, "It seems that grandpa has been prepared for a long time", Huang Jun understood everything at that time, what was it that made grandpa give it to him so mysteriously? Thinking of his grandfather's eyes before he died, Huang Jun had a very complicated premonition in his heart, as if he always felt that his life was going to change a lot from now on.

As expected, in the letter, Huang Jun knew about the spirit world, knew about the guardian, knew a lot of things, and also knew that the things in the ancient books were the skills that the guardian must learn. But in Huang Jun's eyes at the time, this was simply a joke, and naturally, what his grandfather said to Huang Jun in the letter was also taken as a matter of course as the old man's delirious nonsense. If the old man is really the guardian, why is it so miserable? This was Huang Jun's truest thoughts at that time.

But anyway, since grandpa solemnly handed over this letter and this ancient book to Huang Jun, no matter how ridiculous and disdainful he felt in his heart, for the sake of the special feelings in his heart, Huang Jun still kept the ancient book by his side, and occasionally turned it over when he was bored. The content of the ancient book is not like Huang Jun imagined to teach ghost painting runes or something, but it is a very strange practice method, the whole ancient book is just explaining this practice method, in the book, it has a name, called "Xuan Ling Jue", although the name sounds like a common name when the magic stick cheats money, but Huang Jun slowly found that the Xuan Ling Jue has a lot of benefits for the improvement of his physical fitness, because of this reason, throughout the four years of college, Huang Jun has been practicing Xuan Ling Jue non-stop. But for some reason, although Huang Jun could clearly feel that Xuan Ling Jue was constantly changing his body, at the same time, the slowness of this exercise cultivation also made him extremely depressed. According to the description of the ancient book, there are five layers of Xuanling Jue, but according to the introduction in the book, after three years of cultivation, Huang Jun has not even practiced the first layer, and according to the condition in his body, Huang Jun even thinks that it is impossible to truly practice this technique in this life. But it is precisely because of this that Huang Jun is sure that the ancient book handed over to him by his grandfather is not useless, on the contrary, there are secrets in it that are difficult for outsiders to know, but for now, Huang Jun can't easily solve this secret.

The turning point came from the end of the second year after Huang Jun practiced the Xuan Ling Jue, when Huang Jun had graduated from university, everyone knew that social work is difficult to find now, and it is even more difficult to find a job that he is satisfied with, especially for Huang Jun, this is not to say that Huang Jun is not a hard worker, on the contrary, for his major, he studied very deeply, but the reality is cruel, the company needs technical talents, Huang Jun has no one, the second has no relationship, and the major is not a hot employment, so it is naturally more difficult to get the favor of a good unit. But life has to go on, Huang Jun did not give up, he always felt that I was born to be useful, and this self-confidence never left him, although sometimes he didn't know where his self-confidence came from. One day, Huang Jun interviewed a company, and the boss of this company didn't take a fancy to him, but through Xuan Lingjue, Huang Jun actually felt that there was an unusual dark aura shrouded in the boss's eyebrows, which made Huang Jun very uncomfortable, and after thinking about it, Huang Jun still couldn't help but mention it to the boss, originally Huang Jun thought that the boss would definitely break out and sweep himself out, but he didn't expect Huang Jun to say anything, and the company's boss had an extremely strange face, and he actually told Huang Jun that he had been having nightmares all this time. But I don't know why. Huang Jun cleared the dark aura in the boss according to the method of Xuan Lingjue, and told the boss to go to him the next day, but he didn't expect the boss to come to thank him in person the next day, not only that, but the boss also supported Huang Huangjun to open a cleaning company. Thinking that he didn't have a job for the time being anyway, Huang Jun actually agreed, and after agreeing, the boss also took the opportunity to introduce some business, and slowly, it became bigger and bigger. Of course, these are just things behind the scenes, and although this kind of business is not harmful, on the contrary, it can save people's lives, but it cannot be done openly. Fortunately, thinking of his grandfather's instructions before he died, Huang Jun suddenly felt that this might be the arrangement of fate, if it wasn't fate, how could such a wonderful thing happen? This year, Huang Jun was twenty-three years old, and it was like a flower. With more and more businesses to take over, Huang Jun also slowly came into contact with many spiritual things, the outlook on life and values formed in the previous 20 years suddenly changed dramatically overnight, sometimes Huang Jun himself felt as if he was crazy, no, in the eyes of those worldly mortals, he must be crazy, but every time he took over the business, the supernatural things he faced were so real, in the end, the world has changed, or has he changed? Huang Jun is not sure, but he knows that he will never be able to return to the lost youth, and it is impossible for him to continue to live in ignorance and unconsciousness according to the previous set, he has become a guardian, guarding the city. And at this moment, on this midnight train, he didn't know that the second turning point in his life was coming.

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