Chapter Twenty-Six: Undercurrents

At eight o'clock in the morning, I took Zhao Shouquan's Land Rover to arrive at the Death Pavilion, last night he told me a lot of the rules of the Death Pavilion, messily did not remember a few, just know that the "Death Pavilion" is not allowed to mention sensitive words such as "ghost" and "demon", and do not ask anyone's origin, let alone fight in it, otherwise there is only a dead end.

The Pavilion is divided into four floors, the first floor is a business antique shop, and the second floor is a gathering place for many retired old guys.

I was nervous all night, and I really stood in front of the "Death Pavilion", but I found that it was very different from what I imagined, standing in the center of Mushi, and the terrible Death Pavilion that was spread by people was just a first-floor faΓ§ade in the final analysis, not resplendent or magnificent, and it didn't seem to be much different from the restaurants on the street.

"Death Pavilion" three golden characters engraved on the wooden plaque shining, on both sides of the old decayed wooden door erected a couplet, the font of the couplet is regular script, red.

Shanglian: Yang people avoid themselves, how can they know how long they will live for a hundred years?

Downlink: Yin guests, please enter, it is difficult to empty all the way.

I looked back at Zhao Shouquan, he didn't mean to enter, leaned on the car and gently pointed at me with the cigarette on his fingertips, signaling me to enter.

I took a deep breath and pulled the tiger ring on the wooden door with both hands, and a large hall appeared in front of me, with white lights shining overhead, glass cases filled with all kinds of antiques, and waiters in black suits shuttling back and forth.

"Welcome." A high-pitched voice rang out, and I turned my head to see a handsome young man standing on the inside of the door, looking at me with a smile on his face.

He slowly closed the wooden door and said softly, "Sir, how can I help you?" ”

I didn't expect that there was a hole in the rough face of the Death Pavilion, and I said a little nervously: "I'm here for an interview, and I received a call yesterday ......"

"It's Mr. Xu Sanhuo, please come here."

Before I could finish speaking, he respectfully extended his hand and invited me to the back of the hall, and the people around him did not seem to be interested in me, they were all busy with the business at hand, and my presence did not attract the attention of the others.

I followed the young man in the suit to the back of the hall, and saw a light blue glass door, which was frosted, and I could only see a few figures inside.

"Please come in."

I slowly pushed open the door, and inside the room was a conference table, and on the wall opposite the table hung a painting of a woman, standing on the top of a mountain, bewitching, swinging her skirt and dancing, dexterous and beautiful.

There were four people sitting at the table, three men and one woman, and I saw that they were a little reserved, and they didn't know what to say.

One of them, an old man on crutches, had sharp eyes, hooked his finger at me, and said, "Come near and let me see." ”

I had to do as he was told and go to him.

"Open your mouth."

I opened my mouth wide, and the old man's eyes stared, "It's not bad." ”

I closed my mouth and muttered in my heart, "Is this a person, or a donkey?" Do you still look at the teeth? ”

"Where is the teacher?" The old man spoke slowly.

"There is no sect, I am from the village."

"Yo?" The old man was surprised: "That skeleton spirit has a hundred and ten years of mana, you don't have any sects, how can you kill him?" ”

"." I learned his weird dialect.

The old man looked at me curiously, "Hmm... Let's go to the front desk for the night shift. ”

After speaking, the other three didn't say a word, got up and left, I was directly confused by them, what does this mean, I prepared a lot of information about ghost hunting, yin and yang spells last night, but none of them were used.

The old man got up, "Come to work tonight, work for a week first, and give you a sign if you can." ”

"Brand? What brand? ”

"Go ask Zhao Shouquan."

After saying that, he left, and I was left alone in the conference room, and after standing there and pondering for a while, I walked out of the hall of the Afterlife Pavilion, and the young man in the suit was still standing at the door, and said to me, "Welcome again." ”

I left the Pavilion and got into the co-pilot of the Land Rover, looking ignorant.

Zhao Shouquan started the vehicle with a cigarette and asked, "What position did they give you?" ”

"Hmm... Night shift front desk. ”

Zhao Shouquan frowned when he heard this, "These old guys, fuck, the people who are harming me." ”

I'm even more puzzled, is Zhao Shouquan dissatisfied with this position? I think it's pretty good, and I'm happy to have a job.

"I think it's good."

As soon as the words came out, he felt a pain in the back of his head, Zhao Shouquan slapped him and said angrily: "Do you know how many people died at the front desk of the night shift of the Dead Pavilion?" Just the day before I went to my home village, the previous night shift had just disappeared, and no one was alive or dead. ”

As soon as I heard it, I was confused, "Damn... So dangerous? Doesn't that send me to death? ”

"What do you think?" Zhao Shouquan's face was ugly, "I already knew that these old guys were going to make moves, but I didn't expect it to be so fast!" ”

"What do you mean?"

"The child has no mother, it's a long story, this matter has to start with the rules inside the Afterlife Pavilion......."

Along the way, Zhao Shouquan told me about an undercurrent struggle in the Pavilion of the Afterlife.

The Pavilion is composed of four different groups, the third and fourth floors belong to the senior leaders, who only make major decisions about the Pavilion, while the first and second floors belong to the "Council of Elders" in the Pavilion and belong to the grassroots leaders.

There are more than 20 people in the Council of Elders, all of whom are important people who have been operating the Afterlife Pavilion for many years, and after the Afterlife Pavilion was successfully established and spread its reputation, the Afterlife Pavilion Master gave these people full benefits, including management rights and some treasures accumulated by the Afterlife Pavilion for many years.

However, after a long time, the Elders were not satisfied with the power they had, and began to fight for power with another organization in the Afterlife Pavilion, which was the "Yin-Yang Hall" composed of members of the Afterlife Pavilion like Zhao Shouquan.

The interior of the Afterlife Pavilion is managed by the leaders of the four floors, but the external affairs have always been handled by the "Yinyangtang", including accepting tasks, killing, negotiating, eliminating demons and catching ghosts, etc., it can be said that the "Yinyangtang" is the most important combat power of the Afterlife Pavilion.

Because the task is huge, controlling all external events, its interests and power are better than those of the Council of Elders, and the leader of the "Yin-Yang Hall" is a beautiful young woman named "Lingzhi" on the fourth floor of the Pavilion of the Dead Life, and the Council of Elders does not dare to offend Lingzhi, so they make a stumbling block and fight openly and secretly with several managers under Lingzhi, and even recruit a group of people from the "Yin-Yang Hall" to privately take over the task in the name of the Council of Elders to seek benefits.

Lingzhi was not unaware of the Elders' actions, but most of the time they turned a blind eye, but the three managers below Lingzhi couldn't sit still, so there was an incident that shocked the Afterlife Pavilion.

Three years ago, two Presbyterians were killed, leaving no bones, including their descendants.

As soon as the incident happened, the people on the third floor of the Death Pavilion came forward for the first time, and it only took half a day to catch the mastermind, the number one general under Lingzhi - Mo Yu.

In the end, under the intercession of Lingzhi and Yinyangtang, Mo Yu was banned in an unknown place by the people on the third floor, and no one could find him, which was regarded as a life sentence.

Since then, the Council of Elders and the Yin-Yang Hall have each taken a step back and spent a three-year honeymoon period, but the open and secret battles in private are still indispensable, because the Council of Elders has mastered the selection mechanism and has been cultivating henchmen, and the people recommended by the Yin-Yang Hall have tried their best to stop it.

Zhao Shouquan is one of the three deputy hall masters of the current Yin-Yang Hall.

And I, naturally, became the target of the Presbyterian Church!

After listening to Zhao Shouquan's story, and then recalling the actions of the old man during today's interview, he didn't want to interview me at all, he was humiliating me, humiliating Zhao Shouquan, and then throwing me into the most dangerous position, life and death.

I didn't expect that there was such a dangerous undercurrent in the Afterlife Pavilion, and I was at a loss for a while, so I asked Zhao Shouquan what to do.

Zhao Shouquan didn't answer me all the way, and when he arrived at home, he locked himself in the study and didn't show up for a whole day.

Chen Jihe and I were noisy in the living room, and after contact, I found out that Chen Jihe was an unusually funny girl, simple-minded, keen on Korean dramas and cartoons, and her favorite thing to do was to pinch my ears every time I couldn't say it.

I suspect that if I stay with her for a long time, my ears will get bigger.

In the evening, Zhao Shouquan summoned me into the study, and there was a book on the desk in front of him, and said to me: "This is given to me by Aunt Meng many years ago, I didn't want to give it to you now, your ability, if you control it well, you can use it freely, if you can't restrain it, I'm afraid that you will go into the evil way." ”

I picked up the book, and there were four big characters written on it: "Yin Master Codex"

I flipped through the footer, but there was not a word, I raised my head and looked at Zhao Shouquan with a little doubt, only to see him looking back at me seriously.

In an instant, I understood, attracted the witch eye, and looked at the "Yin Master Codex" again, countless dense words rushed into my mind, and just by breathing, I memorized all the contents of the "Yin Master Codex".

I was deeply aware of the horror of this book, but I didn't have time to savor it.

Zhao Shouquan saw that I closed the "Yin Master Codex", crossed Erlang's legs, and said with his chin on his chin: "I thought about it, although the elders' move is dangerous, how can those who achieve great things have a smooth journey?" The bold dragon and tiger, the timid feed the cat and the rabbit, and the people who come and go at night in the Death Pavilion are all capable people, maybe this will be your chance! ”

"I... Can I do it? ”

"Try it." Zhao Shouquan sneered, "It's still the same sentence, the carp jumps over the dragon gate, and it is a dragon when it jumps over, and it can't get past ......."

"Okay, I see."

"I'm not an insider of the Afterlife Pavilion, so I won't be there every day, you are so self-cherishing, call me when you encounter something, but I can only say that I will do my best."

"Will the group of elders kill me?"

"They don't do it themselves, and now everyone maintains a delicate balance, and once the balance is broken, it is a big trend!"

My lips trembled, "What will happen?" ”

"Kill."