Chapter VIII. A calm that cannot be returned
"Let's talk about it briefly." Huang Chengye put his injured leg on the empty seat in the back seat, and the van was loaded with Mu Chi, him and the driver, and there was enough free space.
He lowered his head, rummaged in his pockets, pulled out a crumpled pack of cigarettes, and expertly pulled out one: "Mind smoking?" ”
"Don't mind." Mu Chi shook his head, the window of the van was open, and the smell of smoke would be blown away by the wind immediately.
"One?"
"Nope."
So Lao Huang lit a cigarette by himself, rested his arm on the side of the car window, took a deep breath, and said:
"First of all, I hope you are mentally prepared."
"Mentally prepared?"
"Remember the guy who pounced on you earlier?"
Mu Chi nodded and said, "Of course, that person is...... Mentally ill? Or is it a patient who escaped from some superpower secret R&D institution? ”
"That's pretty much what it means, you can think of it as a superpower that often appears in movies, but we have a special name."
He paused, his eyes fixed on the young man's face, as if trying to read something from his face, "Demon." ”
It's just that Mu Chi's reaction was nothing special, he just raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand and gestured: "Then why is that demon who is not allowed to become a sperm?" ”
"That's it." Lao Huang leaned back and changed to a more comfortable position, "One thing is unfortunate, after you were attacked by an unstable demon rampage this time, you will have to say goodbye to your previous peaceful life. ”
"Huh?"
"Sounds a bit, but according to our statistics, people who have been attacked by demons will have a higher chance of being attacked by rampaging demons, and demons on the verge of rampage will even take the initiative to find you and attack you."
"No, no, no, no." Mu Chi shook his head again and again, "Not to mention that this seems to be a strange setting where stand-in messengers will attract each other, I have lived a good life for the past twenty years, why am I suddenly going to be attacked by demons all of a sudden?" ”
As a result, Lao Huang spit out a puff of cigarette and spread his hands, as if he was in an open posture: "I thought the same thing more than ten years ago, and then I worked in the duty department of the Demon Prison Division for ten years. ”
"That doesn't make sense." Mu Chi felt a little unbelievable, "There are so many people who saw the demon at the scene, is it possible that they all become the target of the demon?" ”
"It's different, you're the direct target, and those people are just affected." Lao Huang explained, "The Demon Prison Division has special personnel on duty, who can use witchcraft to erase the traces and memories of these affected people's attacks, but if you are directly attacked like you, if you insist on removing the marks, it may hurt you. ”
Mu Chi couldn't help but be silent.
He was still a little lucky, thinking that if he left that building, he could return to his original peaceful life.
However, the truth is that even if he tried to escape, the trouble was like an appendage, and he couldn't get rid of it.
He didn't think there was anything sensational in Lao Huang's words, after all, he seemed to be just an ordinary person - if Lao Huang had noticed the performance of his rolling pin, he would not have been so calm.
If you have to be involved in this dangerous world that belongs to "demons", will it ......
Would it be better to go back to the second uncle's apartment building?
Mu Chi was taken aback by his own thoughts, and couldn't help but feel a thrill all over his body - just kidding, how do you think that the danger and mystery of that building are higher than the outside?
But listening to Ning Haiyan's words, it seems that as long as you live in it, you won't be disturbed too much? And in that building, I still have a golden finger that can gradually adapt to that world
Although I don't want to admit it, the power that the "tenant list" brings to me does have a pretty good performance against these demons - if there is no stick of "slow word trick", I will definitely be dug out of a big hole by that demon first.
His contemplative appearance was seen by Huang Chengye, but Lao Huang couldn't read his fancy intestines, let alone knew that this young man had almost knocked over the demon with a stick before.
Lao Huang sighed secretly, what a young man, looking very energetic with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but he was going to be involved in such an incident.
If it was a few years ago, when Yulin City only occasionally had a demon rampage attacking humans, then it would be better to admit him into the Demon Prison Society.
But this year...... Since the beginning of the summer, in less than a month, there have been four vicious incidents of demon attacks on people. According to the prediction of the Secret Service, the number of demons that run amok will increase in the future.
How unlucky the newcomers recruited at this time are, naturally there is no need to say much.
"Well, don't worry too much." Huang Chengye thought about Fa'er to comfort the young man, "You are different from us, but don't forget, the attitude of the Li team towards you before ......"
"Team Li? Is it the woman? ”
"Well, Captain Li Bing, that's a new star in the executive department...... Lao Huang smiled bitterly and lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by others, "You must know that before this, Team Li had never physically touched strangers...... It's still the action of holding your face. ”
"When I was watching, I almost scared you out of heart disease."
At this point, the speed slowed down and the van stopped. Lao Huang sat up straight and said, "We've arrived...... Anyway, don't worry, there is no need for psychological pressure, and there will be people covering you when you enter the Demon Prison Division. ”
The car door opened, and the noise came into my ears for a moment. Mu Chi jumped out of the car with his suitcase, and then looked at Lao Huang suspiciously.
"You Demon Supervisor...... Right here? ”
The old yellowed signboard hangs diagonally at the entrance of the alley, the font of "Food [] Street" is crooked, and the word "one" in the middle is gone. It was obviously two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and there was a long queue in front of the fried noodles stall at the entrance of the alley, crowded together with the end of the line of the bubble tea shop on the other side, and the excitement under the smoke and fire overflowed.
"You Demon Supervisor Division, just open in the food street?"
"Any questions?" Lao Huang stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, "The dry rice is not active, and there is a problem with the thinking, this kind of old alley has the taste of looking for food, come with me." ”
He took Mu Chi all the way to the depths of the alley, and the storefronts of every store along the way were not connected to the glamorous and beautiful, but the aroma coming from it was amazingly strong. Diners crowded around the humble tables on the side of the road, all smiling happily.
This weirdness made Mu Chi feel a little creepy inexplicably, and even felt even more infiltrating than the second uncle's apartment building.
Lao Huang, who was limping, suddenly stopped, then turned to Mu Chi and said, "You wait here for me for a while, I'll buy you an egg cake." ”
"This ...... No need. Mu Chi suppressed the hunger provoked by the aroma and politely refused.
"It's okay, I promised you before, this is definitely the best egg cake in Yulin City." Lao Huang didn't care about him, and walked towards the stall on the side.
Mu Chi could only stand in place, looking at the gobbling up diners around him, worried that they would become fat pigs as they ate, like in "Spirited Away".
However, the diners quickly wiped their mouths after eating, and the moment they walked out of the alley, they resumed their hurried manners.
"You're right to be vigilant."
A hoarse old voice suddenly sounded in his ears, Mu Chi turned sideways, and at some point an old man with a hunched waist appeared on the wall beside him, holding a cane and blindfolding his eyes with strips of black cloth.
"The food made by demons, even if it is not bad and malicious, will have a little impact on ordinary people...... Although this effect is negligible, it will take at least sixty or seventy years to manifest itself, and the life span of mortals will almost come to an end by then. ”
Mu Chi was stunned for a moment, he tasted the old man's words, and was about to answer, when Lao Huang had already walked back with a bag of egg cakes, and stretched out his hand to greet him.
When he tried to talk to the old man again, the old man was gone.
"Let's go, go to the division and sit down and eat." Lao Huang continued to walk towards the alley with him, but Mu Chi hesitated for a moment and did not ask.
The two walked to the end of the alley, a cul-de-sac with a sturdy brick wall covered in damp moss.
In front of the brick wall is a rattan chair.
On the rattan chair, sat the old man with a cane in one hand and blindfolded with a strip of black cloth, motionless, like a statue.
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