Chapter X
Lu Xiaotian came back and returned to the studio at nine o'clock in the evening on the sixth day of leaving. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
There was no one on the first floor, Li Ke estimated that in the bedroom, the new cleaning staff must have already left work, Lu Xiaotian walked upstairs while thinking.
When passing by the front desk, Lu Xiaotian saw the black envelope on the table at the front desk at a glance, and then his face changed greatly. picked up the envelope and looked at it carefully, then turned around and rushed upstairs, going straight to Li Ke's bedroom.
Li Ke was taken aback by Lu Xiaotian, Lu Xiaotian rushed into his room, didn't even knock on the door, and didn't put the luggage in his hand, looking nervous, as if he was in a hurry.
"...... you come back" Li Ke's words were interrupted by Lu Xiaotian before he could finish speaking.
"Who received this letter? When did you receive it? Lu Xiaotian raised the black envelope in his hand and said to Li Ke, his voice was so loud that it seemed to be roaring.
Li Ke was stunned for a moment, came back to his senses and said: "It was the morning of the second day after you left, when Gao Baibai came, it was the new employee, I saw it at the door, I thought it was collected by the studio where it was written, and I took it back." I'll hand it over to you when you come back, what's wrong? Is it important? Li Ke regretted it a little, why didn't he know how to do things, this letter was not sent by the post office, it should have been put by someone, what if it was left by Lu Xiaotian's girlfriend or something, he should have called Lu Xiaotian to ask at that time.
Lu Xiaotian took a deep breath, pressed the door of his head, and vigorously stroked back a handful of broken hair on his forehead, forcing himself to calm down.
Lu Xiaotian threw the duffel bag in his hand at Li Ke's door, walked to Li Ke's bedside, sat down, and sorted out his thoughts. He said, "Do you know what this letter means? ”
Li Ke thought in his heart that the sky was going to kill me, it couldn't really be his girlfriend.
Without waiting for Li Ke to reply, Lu Xiaotian said again: "In this world, there are really ghosts and gods. ”
Li Ke froze.
"Didn't you see it in the mirror in my room last week?"
He knew, how did he know? Li Ke's mind was inexplicably calm, and there was only one thought in his mind.
"This kind of envelope represents the entrustment of the ghost, and accepting it means agreeing." Li Ke's mind hadn't turned around yet, and he hadn't kept up with the span of Lu Xiaotian's speech at all, and he was still thinking about what to do if Lu Xiaotian asked him why he entered Lu Xiaotian's bedroom.
"This kind of letter, accepted and agreed, must be done, otherwise, you will have to pay for it with your life." Li Ke's brain couldn't react anymore, and he was also frightened by the sentence of taking his life.
"What do you mean?"
"This kind of letter, because the risk factor is too high, so generally no intermediary will accept it. And the most dangerous thing is not just the problem of paying for life, but the ghost who will use this kind of faith, and the requirements themselves are very difficult or outrageous. For example, ask you to help him kill someone. ”
"Are you kidding?" Li Ke said that he couldn't accept Lu Xiaotian rushing into his room and telling him this as soon as he came back.
"I didn't want to involve you in the first place, I also wanted to pretend not to know when you saw Zhou Yao, but you accepted this letter," Lu Xiaotian sneered, "Maybe, it's fate, you can't get anything to do with these things." ”
Li Ke was speechless, he felt as if he had opened a door that did not belong to him, and what he was going to hear next might change his life in the future.
"What you say, are you serious? Not kidding me? Li Ke asked very seriously.
"Yes. What do you think there's any point in me lying to you with this kind of thing. Lu Xiaotian looked at Li Ke and said, Li Ke took a deep breath as if he was resigned.
"Okay, I'll just ask one question, does Shi Yang's death have anything to do with you?" This is a question that has been buried deep in Li Ke's heart for the past half a month, and it is the deepest knot in Li Ke's heart to stay in this studio.
"No, it's what you said, I checked it later, and there are no other human factors."
There was silence in the room for a long time, in fact, Li Ke had a lot of questions in his heart, but since Lu Xiaotian said that it was really just Shi Yang's suicide, then other questions were not important. I don't know why, he just believed Lu Xiaotian's words, probably from the moment he saw Zhou Yao, his cognition had quietly changed. The deceased was gone, and he didn't want to pursue any other questions.
"The most important question now is this letter." Lu Xiaotian couldn't help but speak. He raised the letter in his hand to Li Ke. continued: "This kind of letter has a time limit, that is, the client must be contacted within seven days, otherwise even if the recipient defaults, the entrusted ghost will ask for his life." ”
Li Ke looked at Lu Xiaotian and said seriously: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect to cause you such a big trouble." I don't know what these ghosts and monsters mean. If it's in trouble for you, I'm ...... I'm really sorry. If there's anything I can do to help, I'll try to help you. ”
"Now it's not your problem at all, it's your problem." Li Ke looked dazed, and Lu Xiaotian said again: "This letter was accepted by you, it is the commission you received, although it is written in Lu Xiaotian's studio, if I ask for my life, I can't escape the relationship, but the first person the ghost is looking for must be you." Li Ke was stunned.
"I've been gone for six days, this is the letter you received on the first morning, we only have," Lu Xiaotian looked down at his watch, then looked up at Li Ke and said: "It will take about 50 hours to find the client and start to complete its requirements." ”
"If you can't finish it, you're going to die, right? There's no other way to do it than to help it with the requirements, right? Li Ke's heart swelled with a strong sense of crisis.
"The top priority is to find the client first, as long as we find it, it means that we have officially accepted the commission, it is not a breach of contract, no, at least, it will not die immediately, and as long as there is time, it can be delayed, even if it is eliminated by means of ruthlessness."
"Can it be destroyed? So why did we find it to take this commission? Li Ke didn't expect that Lu Xiaotian still had the ability to destroy ghosts.
"I'm just an intermediary, although I can find someone to eliminate it, but ......" Lu Xiaotian paused, "I didn't tell you before, I didn't want to involve you in, the main business object of Lu Xiaotian's studio is not people, but ghosts." This is a ghost commission, I can choose not to accept it, but as long as I accept it, it doesn't involve the bottom line, such as killing people, I won't and can't just destroy it, besides, we don't have enough time left to find someone to find it and destroy it. ”
Lu Xiaotian looked at Li Ke's panic on his face and said, "I didn't want to involve you in the first place, but since you have been involved, I will try my best to ensure your safety." Li Ke greeted Lu Xiaotian's family in his heart, just as much as he could! MD
"Then let's hurry up and find it." Li Ke said resignedly.
Lu Xiaotian lowered his head and tore open the envelope, there was only a piece of paper inside, and a line of words was written on it, which was an address.
Gaofu, No. 183 Kunshan Road
Li Ke collapsed when he saw it: "There are not even provinces and cities, just a road name, and Gaofu, what age is this, and now it changes every year, where can we find it!" ”
"Intermediaries have their own areas of responsibility, so it shouldn't exceed this province, at the end of the year, as far as I know, the ghosts left here are not before the Qing Dynasty, not the Qing Dynasty on the Republic of China, high, if it is a Han person, the Republic of China is a little more likely, in short, look for it on the Internet first."
After speaking, Li Ke hugged his notebook, opened the map and began to search for Kunshan Road.
"There is no Kunshan Road in this city!" Li Ke looked at the map and said anxiously: "Could it be that there is no such road for transformation!?" ”
"Expand the scope a little bit and search for it." Lu Xiaotian looked at the map and said.
Twenty minutes later, they found two Kunshan roads in the province, one farther away from the city. It was rebuilt in the 80s, it was originally called Kunshan Road, and now it is called Kunming Road. One is a surrounding county, which is not very developed, and there is no detailed information about this road on the Internet.
"What can I do, which one is this? We only have one day, is it too late? Li Ke scratched his head vigorously.
"It's too late to come, it's a big deal to go to both places." Lu Xiaotian moved the computer from Li Ke to himself and began to search for routes and train numbers. There are only two buses a day to the county seat, at 10 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, there are buses and trains to another city, but they will leave at 6 o'clock tomorrow at the earliest, plus if you go to the wrong place to turn back the traffic between the two places, one day is not enough at all.
The two of them discussed it, and it was estimated that they would not be able to sleep tonight, so they decided to drive by themselves, go to the nearest county seat first, and if it was not right, they could also rush to another city before noon.
Li Ke changed his clothes, picked up his wallet and mobile phone and was about to leave, while Lu Xiaotian went back to the room to get a bag, and the two of them went out.
The car drove for more than two hours, and I made a mistake in the middle, and arrived at the county seat at more than eleven o'clock. Lu Xiaotian drove directly into the Kunshan Road in that county, which is also very backward in this underdeveloped small county, with few shops and a few residential areas along the way, and they are basically the old four-story buildings in the eighties and nineties.
In the end, Lu Xiaotian parked the car at the intersection of Kunshan Road and a street that seemed to be a main road, there was also a small hotel here, the lights were still on, and the door was not closed, so they decided to stay first and then find a way to ask the locals here about the situation.