When you receive a promotion, you will naturally have to socialize with your old and new colleagues.
The night was dark, and Lu Zhizhi, smelling of alcohol, staggered back to the small rented courtyard.
After closing the courtyard door, he groped his way back into the house under the faint light of the stars and the moon. Without lighting a lamp or taking off his clothes, he threw himself on the bed and fell asleep.
After about a quarter of an hour, Lu Zhizhi got up from the bed. The alcohol on his face had receded, and his eyes were clear again.
I held my breath and listened to the sounds outside the house for a long time. At this time, the surrounding neighbors were all asleep, and only the chirping of insects and birds occasionally sounded.
Lu Zhidao was still worried. He walked quietly to the window and opened a gap in the window sash. He looked outside and made sure that no one was there. Then he walked back to the bed, rolled up the quilt, and then Lifting the bed board revealed the entrance to the secret.
Lu Zhizhi did not rush in, but first moved the square dining table to the door and blocked the door. After trying a few times to make sure it would not be pushed open easily, he returned to the entrance of the secret room and walked along the steps. Go down.
The steps were long and deep, and there was no light around them.
Lu Zhizhi held the wall with one hand and lifted the hem of his clothes with the other, groping his way down in the darkness. It took him nearly a stick of incense to feel the gentleness and solidity of the ground through the touch of his feet.
There was a little dim light in the darkness not far away, and intermittent, vague moaning sounds could be heard.
The secret room was tens of feet deep underground, and the cold and damp atmosphere surrounded him, making Lu Zhishi couldn't help but shiver.
Ta…Ta…Ta…
The sound of footsteps echoed in the small, dead space.
Lu Zhi walked to the light.
The lamp was placed in the center of a square table full of oil stains and food residues. A man with unkempt hair and a face that looked like a beggar was lying on the square table, sleeping soundly.
The sour and rancid temperature of the food and the strange fishy smell emanated from this person's body, filling the small and enclosed space.
Knock knock knock…
Lu Zhizhi raised his sleeves to cover his mouth and nose, and tapped the table with his fingers.
The beggar slowly raised his head, opened his sleepy eyes through a small gap and glanced at Lu Zhizi, then his head sank and he lay back on the table again, muttering vaguely.
"It's not time for the insects to break out of their pupae, so you're here early."
"I'm just here to tell you some news. There are only eight of the more than forty evil poisons that were released earlier."
"impossible!"
The beggar suddenly jumped up, rushed in front of Lu Zhizhi, grabbed him by the collar and shouted.
"Absolutely impossible!"
"Evil Gu that has been extinct for nearly a thousand years can be cultivated by you. There is nothing in this world that is impossible."
Lu Zhizhi said expressionlessly.
"As long as the evil poison parasitizes on a living person, it will cause a continuous stream of evil thoughts in the heart of the living person. If there are evil thoughts, they will do evil, and doing evil will bear evil consequences. The evil poison will then feed on the evil fruits and grow stronger, making the living people's hearts fuller. Producing more and more crazy evil thoughts, and repeating this cycle, coupled with its intangible and qualityless characteristics, it is basically an immortal existence."
"Since it is immortal, why did it become extinct in the first place?"
"It's not because of that bullshit God Catcher. It is said that he has realized some kind of magical power. Nothing in the world can be hidden from his hands..."
The beggar's voice suddenly paused, and his eyes showed fear at first, but then turned into ecstasy.
"Someone has realized the same magical power as Catching God?"
"I guess so."
Lu Zhizhi nodded.
"Where is he? Capture him and let me study it carefully. Maybe I can decipher the secret of the divine eye. Or figure out why he can see the invisible evil Gu, and maybe I can remove the evil Gu. This only weakness is eliminated. At that time, the evil Gu can truly become an immortal existence. Hahahahaha..."
The beggar roared and laughed as if he were crazy.
"That person is still of some use now, and he will leave Kyoto City tomorrow, so it's not possible yet. The top priority now is to release more evil poison as soon as possible to corrupt the people's hearts, accelerate the loss of Kyoto City's luck, and weaken the Five Jue The power of the great formation.”
The beggar trotted to a corner of the secret room and lifted a rag covering the corner, revealing three human pigeons with their limbs cut off and their eyes gouged out.
The human pig's body was covered with large and small blisters, and through the dim firelight, it seemed that something was twitching in the blisters.
Ho…ho…ho…
Creepy moans came from the rotting mouths of the three men.
"Okay, okay, now the evil Gu has recovered its mating instinct. Just give me another half year, and when the second generation of Evil Gu hatches out, it can mate and lay eggs on its own. By then, there will be thousands, or even Hundreds of thousands of evil poisons hatched. But I need blood food, lots and lots of blood food."
The beggar squatted down next to a human pig, stretched out his hand and carefully stroked the largest blister on the human pig's body, his eyes full of intoxication.
"The wind outside has been a bit tight recently, but I will find a way."
Lu Zhizhi nodded, then turned and walked into the dark passage behind him.
After walking a few steps, Lu Zhizhi suddenly stopped, turned around and asked.
"Would you like to bring you some other food and drinks next time?"
"Need not."
The beggar waved his hands and replied in a disdainful tone.
"Is there any food in the world that is more delicious than blood food?"
After that, the beggar used his long and sharp nails to pluck a piece of flesh from a part of the human pig's body that did not have blisters, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.
"And only by eating the same blood food as the evil poisonous insects can we sense their existence and instruct them to control them."
The beggar's chewing sound made Lu Zhizhi frown slightly, shook his head and walked into the darkness.
…
The next morning, as soon as it was dark, Rong Fei quietly left the Xuanwu Hutong courtyard.
After returning from Zuixianju with a full load last night, Rong Fei wanted to take advantage of Ji Rouer's good mood to finish the unfinished business the night before.
But Ji Rouer refused on the grounds that if there was physical contact, Rong Fei would miss her even more after he left.
He also said that if Rong Fei was worried about him, he would be able to return home sooner and so on.
After all, this kind of thing requires the cooperation of two people. Ji Rouer is not willing, and Rong Fei naturally can't force it.
But I can't help but sigh in my heart, it's really thirty years to the east of the river and thirty years to the west of the river, the wind and water have taken turns. I think it was Ji Rou'er who tried to have sex in the first place, but Rong Fei didn't dare to go beyond the vow he made.
But now there is a reversal of offense and defense between the two, what a retribution!
Rong Fei didn't like the sad atmosphere when parting, so he left secretly to avoid seeing Ji Rouer's reluctant eyes and feeling regretful.
Little did he know that Ji Rouer had expected it and stayed at the window all night long.
"Why don't you go out and say goodbye? We may not see each other for a long, long time."
Next to her, Rong Lan, who had also not slept a wink all night, asked with a yawn.
Ji Rouer struggled a little when she heard this, but finally shook her head gently and sighed.
"Seeing you will only make you more reluctant to let go, which will only increase your worries."
Some people died, but not completely...
