Chapter Twenty-Three: Can't Escape

Facing the security guard's inquiry, Lu Ming said patiently: "I contacted Assistant Wang yesterday, and he asked me to come over today." My surname is Lu. ”

The security guard picked up the walkie-talkie and asked a few words, and only after a while did he say apologetically: "I'm sorry Mr. Lu, I just contacted Assistant Wang, and he told me that there was a bit of an unexpected situation today, and the master wants to hold a temporary sacrificial ceremony for another person, and it is estimated that it will take half a month to end." During this time, it was inconvenient for the master to meet outsiders. Assistant Wang, please come back in half a month. ”

These masters, the shelves are bigger than the other. In the past few days, Lu Ming has been taught several times. But the biggest shelf has to be regarded as the master surnamed Shu at this moment.

The originally agreed matter was postponed for half a month casually.

Half a month? The daylilies are cold.

Lu Ming sank his face, took out his mobile phone, and dialed Assistant Wang's phone again.

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Lu, I really can't help it, one of his friends has encountered a little something, it's more troublesome, and the master really can't leave. If your matter is not too urgent, could you please wait? Or...... If it's really urgent, why don't you go to the master's junior brother? Master Li is also very powerful, and he will definitely solve your problem......"

On the phone, Assistant Wang apologized a series of times, and his attitude was very respectful.

Lu Ming casually said a few perfunctory words, knowing that he probably wouldn't be able to see this master today, so he hung up the phone.

It doesn't have to be seen anyway. Without this master, there is something else. If you can't see it, you won't see it.

He started the car, reversed the car, and was just about to leave, but suddenly something remembered in his heart.

Prior to the visit, the Operations Division had already collected some information about these masters. According to the data, although Shu Changshan sometimes holds some ceremonies for customers, it never lasts for half a month. Besides, even if it really has to be held for half a month, will there really be no time at all in this half a month?

He suspected that Shu Changshan was not unable to see himself because of something, but because he didn't want to see him at all, so he casually made excuses.

After thinking about it, Lu Ming decided to try it again. He took out the phone again, answered it, and said to Assistant Wang, "Can you help me talk to Master Shu and be accommodating?" It's really an urgent matter for me here, and I can't delay it, so I must see the master to solve it. ”

In the microphone, Assistant Wang's voice was full of embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the master really can't leave." Other masters can also help you solve the problem, don't worry, I can help you contact Master Li, and the cost can also be discounted. ”

Assistant Wang is still full of shirk. Lu Ming thought about it and said directly: "In this way, the originally negotiated cost is 100,000 yuan, and depending on the size of the matter, the difficulty of solving it increases." I'm going to multiply it tenfold directly, can I do it tenfold? It's so important that I can't trust anything else except Master Shu......"

The market price here in Shuchang Mountain is 100,000. Lu Ming had already inquired about this clearly. Now, Lu Ming has directly multiplied tenfold, if Shu Changshan still shirks, it will be more suspicious.

Because Lu Ming knew that what Assistant Wang said about Shu Changshan's so-called friends and the like were actually just customers. And Shu Changshan also values money more.

Now, one million human coins are here, as long as you take a little time to meet with it, you can hope to get it, what reason does Shu Changshan have to refuse?

If you refuse even that, it can only be a deliberate refusal.

And, thinking about it a little deeper, what is the reason why Shu Changshan deliberately refused to see himself? Did he perceive in advance the peculiarity of himself, or the Monoculus, through some kind of mystical means that he could not yet understand, or even belong to the Cthulhu worldview?

If that's the case, it's even more necessary for me to see him.

In the microphone, Assistant Wang was silent. After a while, he said, "It seems that Mr. Lu, you are really very urgent here...... It's rare for you to trust Master Shu so much, so I'll ask Master Shu for instructions again to see if Master Shu can take a little time to see you. ”

Hanging up the phone, Lu Ming waited for a few minutes, and the phone rang again.

"Mr. Lu, I just asked the master for instructions. The master said that all people have compassion, and the master could not bear to see you so anxious, so he overcame all difficulties and paid a great price, temporarily stopped the ceremony, and took a little time. Please come to Hall 3, where the Master will meet you. ”

Lu Ming sneered in his heart.

What kind of compassion is just to see how much money there is.

At this moment, seeing Shu Changshan, Lu Ming had no interest in his heart.

It seems that this Shu Changshan really didn't deliberately refuse to meet him, but really because he couldn't leave because of other things. And since this is the case, the possibility of the existence of "eccentric" in this person is very small.

But things have come to this point, and it doesn't hurt to see. Lu Ming drove directly into this mansion.

Lu Ming found that there was really something in this mansion. There are not only flower beds, lawns, pavilions, and even an artificial lake, which is like some clubhouses.

It seems that the influence of this master surnamed Shu is not ordinarily big, nor is he ordinarily rich.

When he came to the third hall, a young man who looked very energetic greeted him, full of enthusiasm: "Mr. Lu, hello, I am the one who contacted you yesterday, my surname is Wang, and I am the master's assistant." Please come with me, the master is waiting for you inside. ”

Following Assistant Wang to the reception room, Lu Ming saw a middle-aged man with a square face and a temperament of not being angry and arrogant sitting there. He was dressed in a white robe, with cloth shoes on his feet, and no accessories, and he had the air of a clergyman.

"Hello Master."

"Mr. Lu, please be seated. I'm sorry, something happened to that friend of mine...... Mr. Lu, where are you from? ”

Unexpectedly, Shu Changshan did not directly ask Lu Ming what was going on, but chatted with him.

He first asked Lu Ming where he was from and what industry he was engaged in. After Lu Ming said that he was engaged in the real estate industry, his family had developed several real estate projects, and he followed the mess, he began to talk about the real estate industry.

Lu Ming chatted with him quietly, but his heart gradually began to get bored.

If he is an ordinary person, he will probably feel that Shu Changshan is approachable, well-informed, in a high position, but he is not arrogant, and he will have a good impression of him in his heart, and he will trust him more.

But Lu Ming, who had received professional training, noticed that Shu Changshan was just "winding" at the moment. In other words, through conversation and observation, we can confirm the information of the person we talk to, such as family background, wealth, and personal personality.

With this information, it's time to prepare for the next offer.

"Next, it's time for this Master Shu to start the process of raising his own value, right?"

Lu Ming thought so in his heart, and sure enough, during the chat, Shu Changshan began to gradually talk about who he had dealt with, which famous people he had solved troubles for, how powerful he was, and so on.

Only by raising their own value can they make the help-seeker more willing to give more money.

These are routine procedures. Of course, it is easy to use for ordinary people, but it is completely ineffective for Lu Ming.

After chatting for a long time, the topic gradually returned to Lu Ming. Lu Ming made up a random thing like "One day and at a certain time, I saw a ghost in a certain place, and then my luck has been bad" and so on, as a reason to visit Shu Changshan.

He didn't plan to reveal the matter of the "magic eye" at the moment.

After hearing the matter, Shu Changshan seemed to be a little more relaxed, and there was a momentum of a trivial matter in his words.

"Mr. Lu knows that everything in the world is not isolated, but is related to each other. You see ghosts there, but it's just the appearance of things, it's an outward manifestation. It's like you see the water boiling, but the fire that burns under the kettle is the root cause. Only solving the appearance is nothing more than raising the soup to stop the boiling, treating the symptoms but not the root cause. If you want to solve the problem completely, you still have to cure the root cause......"

Shu Changshan's rhetoric covered by clouds and mountains and fog almost blinded Lu Ming's head.

He felt that he couldn't sit down anymore, and felt that today's visit was completely wasted and completely fruitless.

The name Shu Changshan has been unknowingly crossed out by him from the list of candidates.

At this moment, he has even begun to think about how to interrupt the topic and leave from here. After all, it's rude to just leave.

Just as he was thinking about it in his heart, he suddenly noticed that Shu Changshan's sitting posture seemed to be a little weird.

Lu Ming didn't know what caused the weird feeling in his heart, it was just an instinctive judgment after a long period of training. After perceiving this, he immediately began to carefully observe Shu Changshan's sitting posture.

It was only after a moment that he realized that it seemed to ...... Shu Changshan's body has been in a state of tension. This tense state caused a slight difference between his sitting posture and when he was relaxed.

This posture is very hidden, and Shu Changshan is obviously well disguised. Ordinary people simply don't notice it. Even Lu Ming only noticed it unintentionally.

Whereas, physical tension means that the person is in a state of tension. But, at the moment on his own home turf, what reason does he have to be nervous?

Lu Ming's eyes gradually sharpened. He inadvertently glanced at Shu Changshan, and was keenly aware that Shu Changshan's Tong hole shrank imperceptibly for a moment. Although it returned to normal in an instant, it was still captured by Lu Ming.

Lu Ming suddenly coughed vigorously, and his voice was very loud. As a result, he noticed that Shu Changshan's body trembled imperceptibly.

The tremor was very mild. Even, Shu Changshan's speech speed, intonation, expression, etc., did not change in the slightest.

But Lu Ming can already determine at this moment that there must be something abnormal in this Shu Changshan.

Why is he nervous in the face of himself?

Recalling the doubts in his heart before, an idea gradually emerged in Lu Ming's heart.

Is it possible...... At this moment, Shu Changshan, who first crosses the road, then raises his own value, brags about himself, and creates his own "worldly master" character in order to get more money, and all his performance is no different from that of ordinary gods, is he still pretending?

In the face of ordinary people, the performance of this ordinary magic stick has a high probability of promoting ordinary people's trust in themselves, and eventually facilitating transactions. But in the face of himself who has received professional training and can easily recognize the performance of ordinary gods, this kind of performance can only make him despise him in his heart, so as to think that he is a god stick who has no learning and no skills, and has no real skills at all.

Could that be what he's really for? Did he realize early on that he was not an ordinary person, so he took this kind of performance, and the real purpose was to hope that he would take the initiative to give up entanglement with him after seeing through his disguise?

He doesn't want to take his own business, or even contact him? However, if this is the case, why did he refuse without knowing it?

It's good to refuse simply and directly, so why bother?

No, you can't say no. Lu Ming immediately figured this out.

A simple and straightforward rejection requires the right reason. If you don't have the right reason to reject yourself, you will only think that he knows something, and you will insist on reaching out to him even more.

And, in fact, he has already rejected himself openly.

At the beginning, he told himself through Assistant Wang that he was going to hold a ceremony for half a month.

This is already an unequivocal refusal. After all, according to common sense, it is impossible for me to wait for half a month.

However, when he proposed ten times the price, if he refused again, it would be too deliberate and too blunt, which would cause him to perceive something. There was no way, he could only touch himself.

After the real contact at this moment, he tried to disguise himself as an ordinary god stick in an attempt to make himself give up contact with him, but because of some flaws in the details, his true thoughts were exposed.

Lu Ming gradually sorted out such a set of logic.

If this set of logic is true, Shu Changshan has been doing everything possible to "reject" himself, it is still the original judgment, he must know something!

Lu Ming's eyes sharpened again. He wasn't going to go on any longer.

He stood up directly and looked at Shu Changshan condescendingly. Shu Changshan was a little stunned, stopped talking, and raised his head to look at him.

"Master Shu, are you unwilling to take my business?"

Shu Changshan looked at him a little strangely: "Why did Mr. Lu say that?" ”

After Shu Changshan's surprised eyes, Lu Ming saw a fleeting panic. He became more and more sure in his heart.

Lu Ming took out his documents and handed them to Shu Changshan. Looking at the three big characters of the Ministry of Security above, Shu Changshan was silent.

"There's no need to pretend in front of me. Master Shu, tell me, why don't you want to see me, why don't you want to take my business? What do you know? ”

Shu Changshan smiled bitterly and lay down on the back of the sofa.

"After all, I can't escape."

He sighed.