Ye Jia got up from the ground with a gloomy face.
He looked around and saw that his entire apartment seemed to be swept by a storm. From the bedroom, the living room, to the kitchen, it was all in a mess, only the bathroom escaped.
Basically... It's unlikely that any more people will live there.
Ye Jia sighed and rubbed his brows with a headache.
He stepped over the pieces of furniture on the ground, walked to the entrance, reached out and opened the door—
A small figure came in.
He had apparently been sitting against the door, and as soon as the support behind him disappeared, he lost his balance and fell into the door.
The teenager lay on the ground, blinking his scarlet eyes, looking at the shocked face of the young man above his head, his voice was slightly hoarse: "... good morning."
Ye Jia: "..."
My head started to hurt again.
He took a deep breath: "How long have you been here?"
Ji Xuan got up from the ground, and he shook his head, looking extraordinarily well-behaved and sensible, even a little pitiful:
"It won't be long."
Ye Jia tightened his fingers on the doorknob.
Dress it up for me.
He raised his eyes and his eyes fell on the ground beside Ji Xuan.
Two boxes of biscuits, one apple, two bottles of milk, and a large box of juice were neatly laid out on the ground.
Ye Jia was stunned:
"… where did it come from?"
Ji Xuan followed Ye Jia's line of sight and looked over: "Oh, these."
He mused: "The neighbor gave it."
During the time he was sitting here, there were always people passing by and distressedly asking him why he was sitting here alone.
With his back against the tightly closed door, the thin teenager sat quietly in the corridor. His dark eyes were big and bright, his face was clean and beautiful, and his voice was still childish, and he looked sensible. Poor again: "Mom kicked me out, and I came to live with my brother."
- In a sense, he didn't lie.
"Didn't he let you in?" The neighbor was more distressed.
"It's not like that," the young man sighed in frustration and shook his head: "It's all my fault that I did something wrong and I'm waiting for my brother to calm down."
"Then you can't keep children out! Especially in this world," the neighbor was a little angry: "This adult is too irresponsible."
He asked kindly, "Would you like to come into my house and wait?"
The boy pursed his lips and smiled: "No."
When he found that the other party was firm, the neighbor had to give up, but forcibly stuffed him with a lot of snacks.
Every time a person passes by, such a conversation will always happen.
So there are more and more snacks around him.
Ji Xuan said thoughtfully, "Humans are so passionate."
Ye Jia: "..."
He seemed to have guessed what had happened.
You are now likely to be socially dead.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Are you pretending to be a child to be addicted?"
Ji Xuan took a step into the room.
Under the dim morning light and the dim light of the corridor, the small shadows on the ground instantly elongated.
The tall man lowered his eyes, his deep and cold brows were like sculptures in the light intertwined with light and dark, and his scarlet dark eyes were half hidden under long eyelashes, staring intently at the young man in front of him: "Then... you Do you like me more like this?"
His voice was very low, with a hoarse smile in his deep voice: "Brother?"
The distance between the two people was instantly shortened, and the overwhelming aura of the adult male spread out unreservedly, and the tip of their noses almost touched each other.
Ye Jia took a breath and took a step back suddenly, opening the distance between the two.
The light-colored eyes flashed with cold hostility in the dark.
Looking at the young man who was immediately scared away, Ji Xuan sighed regretfully.
He clearly knew that he was alone in adulthood and childhood, and he always said that he would not be soft-hearted, but he was always unable to be hard-hearted to children.
My brother always looks like this... It's really cute.
- In this case, you can't blame him for taking advantage of this.
Ye Jia said coldly: "No matter what it looks like, it has nothing to do with me."
Ji Xuan nodded with a smile: "I understand."
Weird.
Ye Jia cautiously glanced at the man in front of him, took a half step back again, and kept a safe distance from him before slowly asking:
"What's the real reason you work with humans?"
Ji Xuan frowned hurt:
"Brother, can you actually not believe me? Everything I said in the bureau was the truth."
Ye Jia narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at him cautiously, and did not answer.
But his body language was all answering Ji Xuan's question - yes, he did not believe him at all.
"Okay." Ji Xuan restrained the playful look on his face and became serious: "I know I can't make you believe me now, but our purpose is the same at least at this stage."
He hooked his lips casually, and there was a dark coldness in the depths of his scarlet eyes:
"After all, with her here, my king's actions are not stable."
An unshakable authority is on his head, and he is always provoking other S-rank Specters to challenge his rule. After a long time, it is indeed boring.
This reason seems to convince Ye Jia.
After staring at Ji Xuan for a few seconds, he finally let go: "...Okay."
"But I need to see the sincerity of your cooperation." Ye Jia said, "My reward is still on the hate list..."
Before he could finish his words, Ji Xuan immediately expressed his attitude: "I'll remove it now."
- At least tonight's purpose has been achieved.
Ye Jia wanted to close the door.
But he found out that he didn't know when, the other party had stepped into the threshold of his own house and walked into the entrance.
Ye Jia: "..."
Mistake.
Ji Xuan took a slow step again: "Then... brother, should you show some sincerity from time to time?"
Ye Jia's muscles suddenly tightened.
His voice seemed to come out between his teeth: "What do you want?"
Ji Xuan smiled briefly: "Don't be so nervous."
A scarlet gap opened in the space around him, and a piece of paper fluttered in his palm.
He handed the paper to Ye Jia:
"I just want you to be my designated contact person in the bureau."
Ye Jia glanced at the contents above.
Last night, he just glanced at it quickly and didn't have time to see it clearly - it was indeed a direct order from the top management of the Administration, and there was no falsification.
"Your superior should have informed you about this today." Ji Xuan looked down at Ye Jia and whispered, "I just want to share this news with you in advance... brother."
Ye Jia glanced at him coldly, obviously not eating his set:
"Okay, what else?"
Ji Xuan sighed silently in his heart.
- Sure enough, this trick works well when pretending to be a child.
He said without changing his face: "From today onwards, I should contact you in the state of my previous juvenile body."
Ye Jia frowned: "Why?"
"Humans don't know what I look like now, but the ghosts and monsters are different." Ji Xuan said lightly: "...You shouldn't want your current identity to be exposed, right?"
He knew that, in a sense, Ye Jia was a very predictable person.
Although the current series of events have re-involved him into the center of the vortex, he is still eager to return to a peaceful and stable real life after everything is over. He does not want to be the much-anticipated savior, but prefers that logistics the identity of an ordinary member of the Ministry.
Therefore, even if he walked in front of people as ace and participated in the war, he still hid his existence as "Ye Jia" deeply.
Ji Xuan likes this feeling very much.
In this world, only he can occupy two worlds of his brother alone.
This idea made him feel extremely satisfied.
- Therefore, Ji Xuan is also sure that he will not reject his proposal.
He added another fire: "And, starting today, you are my only contact person, so I will never appear in front of your colleagues in the Administration again, and they will never know of my existence. "
Sure enough, Ye Jia fell into deep thought.
After a long time, he nodded: "…Okay."
The smile on Ji Xuan's lips deepened.
He held out his hand: "It's a pleasure to work with."
Ye Jia glanced at him coldly, stretched out his hand and shook the other's dangling palm, and the emphasis was placed on the first two words: "For the time being, happy cooperation."
Before he could pull his hand away, he felt the palm of his hand shrink rapidly.
Ye Jia was stunned and forgot to let go of his hand for a while.
The young man in front of him stretched out his other hand, squinted and smiled, grabbed his wrist and shook it gently:
"—Not bad in the long run."
Ye Jia broke free from his hand as if he was scalded, frowning tightly.
His lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but when he remembered what he had just agreed to, he swallowed the words abruptly.
Ji Xuan didn't seem to notice.
He looked around the room that had almost rotted into pieces in front of him, and raised his eyebrows in surprise:
"What happened to your room?"
Ye Jia followed his line of sight and looked over.
It seemed that he just remembered the incident in his room, his expression darkened instantly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "...Your fish did a good job."
Oh? And such good things
Ji Xuan's eyes lit up.
He concealed his joy without leaking, with a look of guilt and regret on his face: "I'm sorry, it's my fault."
Ye Jia frowned and looked at him vigilantly.
Ji Xuan said: "I have several properties under my name, you can see where you want to live..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Ye Jia without hesitation:
"No, just lose money."
Ji Xuan nodded smoothly, "Of course, the money must be paid."
He changed his words: "But, before your room is ready, you have to find a place to live, right?"
Ye Jia: "... I stay in a hotel."
"If you don't want me to disturb you, I won't take half a step." Ji Xuan's eyes flashed with a smile: "What's the difference between staying in a hotel and staying at my place?"
The difference is huge.
Ye Jia didn't want to have any personal involvement with him. Naturally, the farther away he was, the better - living in any property under Ji Xuan's name was contrary to his original intention.
He shook his head firmly: "No need, thank you."
Ji Xuan persevered and persuaded: "You can monitor me at close range."
Ye Jia smiled, but there was not much joy in his eyes: "If I still need to monitor this kind of place, I don't think there is any need for this cooperation to continue."
Although it was still a pity, Ji Xuan stopped persuading at the right time.
He had already achieved his original goal tonight, and if he got too close, he might have gone too far.
"Okay then." Ji Xuan looked around the apartment that seemed to have been destroyed by the wind, and said, "I will find someone to repair your room - after all, this is also my fault, you should not refuse this. Bar?"
Ye Jia thought for a while, and reluctantly replied: "...Yes."
It can be regarded as taking a step back and reaching a consensus.
He threw the key to Ji Xuan: "As soon as possible."
Ji Xuan's lips deepened into a smile: "Of course."
·
Ye Jia packed up some of his personal items and moved into a hotel not far away.
Sure enough, the next day, the above issued relevant instructions to make him the designated contact person for "a high-level Specter who is willing to cooperate". This matter is highly confidential, that is to say, in the entire M city branch, only Wu Su The two of them knew that there was a high-level Specter who was willing to cooperate, and only Ye Jia had the authority to communicate with the other party.
In the box is another new phone.
Ye Jia took it in his hand and played with it.
Even if he doesn't know much about modern technology, he can see that this phone is much more advanced and more confidential than what Liu Zhaocheng gave him before.
But Ye Jia still felt a little ridiculous - using a mobile phone to contact Li Gui, this kind of thing was impossible for him to imagine ten years ago.
There is only one contact in the phone.
The other party's avatar is a Q version of the god of death with a sickle, which looks extra cute.
Ye Jia narrowed his eyes, suspecting that the other party meant something.
While he was staring at the phone, the other party's message jumped out:
It was a bouncing, happy little man emoji.
Ye Jia: "..."
His hands are itchy.
The fingertips stayed on the black button for a few seconds, and finally dedication prevailed—for work, forget it.
He turned off the phone screen and put it aside.
the other side.
Ji Xuan looked down at the lit screen of the mobile phone in his hand, and the upward curvature of the corner of his mouth could not be suppressed.
Although there was no response from the other party's dialog box from beginning to end, he was sure that the other party saw his message.
Ji Xuan glanced at the book he regarded as garbage.
One of them came into view - "to get to the other party's contact information".
Not only that, but he will also be the only contact on the other party's phone.
This satisfies a deeply suppressed desire for exclusiveness in his heart.
Ji Xuan smiled happily and put away the phone.
At the door, the ghost ghost who sneaked in, gasped in fright, panicked, and hurriedly backed out.
Several other high-level Specter surrounded it, lowered their voices, and asked cautiously, "How is it?"
Shadow Ghost shook his head in a trance: "...The situation is very bad."
After the king killed the leader of the other side, the rest of the monsters turned to dust, and the war was over.
But Wang became strange.
Not only has the bounty on ace been withdrawn, but actually... actually...
With a heavy face, Ami said slowly:
"I... I just saw that Wang was smiling at the phone screen."
The other Specters gasped in shock: "What, what?!"
"I suspect the king may have been cursed..."
Before Ami could finish her words, she felt a chill behind her.
It turned its head slowly.
The door behind them was open, and the Blood Gu fish appeared behind them, staring at the group of Specter Ghosts in front of them with a pair of pitch-black eye sockets.
In the distance, Ji Xuan sat on the throne, narrowed his blood-colored eyes slightly, and asked slowly:
"free?"
All the ghosts shivered: "... King!"
Ji Xuan hooked his lips: "Then I'll find something for you to do."
So, after being forced to play the game with the bloody fish for an hour, all the Specters wanted to cry without tears, especially Ami, who was being cared for heavily, was paralyzed on the ground, panting like a cow.
It's that they are so naive.
Sure enough, the king is still that terrifying, moody ghost king... It's impossible to have a curse or something!
·
After the first batch of recruitment brochures were sent out, the Supernatural Administration quickly added a lot of new blood. Although the follow-up work left by the previous Baigui Yexing had not been completed, it also greatly shared the pressure of the original employees.
Even before the incident came to light, their workload was lighter.
The old employees of the logistics department basically have new tasks now. Ye Jia is now doing errands in the newcomer training department, Zhao Dong stays in the logistics department to handle the remaining affairs, and Cheng Cezhi is assigned to the human resources department to interview newcomers.
Although it is said that the outside world is turbulent, in the next week, Ye Jia's life is extraordinarily fulfilling and peaceful. He goes to work from the hotel to the Administration Bureau every day, and sometimes takes some new employees to go out for work.
During this period of time, although Ye Jia had never replied to any news from Ji Xuan, the other party still enjoyed it and harassed him every day by going online - fortunately, this kind of harassment only lasted online. The influence is also great. After directly disobeying his mother's order, it is estimated that he will be busy for a while.
Until City M issued the second batch of recruiting brochures.
- The content is the same as last time, except that there is a very light pattern printed on the back, which is almost impossible to see if you don't look carefully.
The rose branches are intertwined into a weird and beautiful pattern, which outlines a variant of the three letters of ace.
On the day it was sent out, everything was calm, as if nothing had changed.
But, where no one can see, the dark tide begins to surge, and uneasy whispers spread underground.
And in the center of that whirlpool, is a small city—M City.
The dark night fell, the sky in the distance was shrouded in a thick darkness, and the stars and moonlight were slowly swallowed.
Ye Jia was walking on his way to get off work and suddenly stopped.
He raised his head and looked thoughtfully at the sky.
At this moment, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly "buzzed" twice, Ye Jia took out his mobile phone, and saw that the message above was from Cheng Cezhi.
It's a string of addresses and nothing else.
strangeness.
Ye Jia frowned.
He knew this place. It was near the outskirts of the country. It was almost deserted at night. Few people would go there. What did Cheng Cezhifa do with this address
·
An abandoned factory in m city.
The rich yin is flowing in the dark night sky. Compared with other places, the temperature here is much lower. There is a faint ominous meaning permeating from the black door and window frames, which makes people feel fear and panic instinctively. .
The originally empty factory was now filled with dark hair, flowing and wriggling like an ocean.
Cheng Cezhi was struggling with the thick black hair that reached his waist, but he seemed to be stuck in a quagmire. No matter what, it was hard to move. Wriggling like worms.
"Where is ace?" A thin, sinister voice came out of the hair that covered the sky and asked softly.
Cheng Cezhi was about to cry: "I really don't know the ace you're talking about!!!"
He left a little late today, so he took a shortcut, but he didn't expect to be kidnapped on the way.
This is a B-level Specter. As a logistics member, he has no power to fight back.
So, he was not only tied to this dark and gloomy place, but also kept asking where a person he didn't know at all was...
For whoever does not collapse!
"You lied!!!!!" The voice suddenly became louder, and the sinister meaning became deeper and stronger: "I saw it, that is his signature, there is no mistake... It came from you, You know where he is..."
"It's okay, if you know him...he'll come...hehehehehe..."
outside the warehouse.
Four or five people looked at each other.
Zhao Dong broke the silence: "You also received this address?"
Wu Su nodded and flashed the screen of his phone towards Zhao Dong, and the address displayed on it was the address here.
He is now in charge of the recruiting department, and Cheng Cezhi is his subordinate.
"I contacted his family and said he wasn't home tonight," he said.
In fact, this is not the only reason why he appeared. After all, Wu Su is also working in the busiest combat department. It is difficult to trouble him to run for the trivial matter of an employee suddenly sending him an inexplicable address. one trip.
After that announcement, however, everything changed.
Because the recruiting department will definitely become the first department to be targeted.
Therefore, from that time on, Wu Su began to pay more attention to the recruitment of all employees in the new office, and allocated more props for them to protect themselves.
But obviously, the accident can not be stopped.
"Don't worry," Wu Su tugged at his beard and said anxiously, "I already contacted the other members of the combat department when I set off, and the team should be here soon."
Ye Jia stood in the dark and did not appear directly.
He raised his head, looked at the factory beside him, and sniffed the night wind—the smell inside was very familiar to him.
Coincidentally, that Specter... is the boss in the dungeon he and Ji Xuan met.
Although the level is not high, it is a bit difficult to deal with.
Ye Jia is not sure whether the members of the combat section can handle it.
He was hesitating whether to find an excuse to leave and go in to save people by himself.
But at this moment, he was slightly startled.
The smell in the factory… has changed.
·
Ten minutes later, the fully armed members of the Combat Section arrived at the scene, but before they could start deploying the battle plan, the gate of the factory was slowly opened from the inside.
Cheng Cezhi grinned and limped out.
A young girl led him out.
Wu Su was taken aback: "You..."
The girl grinned at him: "The Specter inside ran away, you can chase it, but I doubt you can catch it."
Wu Su's eyes widened: "You are...!!"
The girl nodded generously: "Hello, I'm maid."
15th in the standings, maid.
She frowned in annoyance, turned to look at Cheng Cezhi who was standing beside her, and complained, "I wanted to tie him up too, but it was obvious that the ghost took the lead..."
Cheng Cezhi: "???"
Why
Why? ? ?
Seeming to see through his collapse, the girl smiled and said, "Because you are the weakest in the entire department."
Cheng Cezhi: "…"
It's alright, it's boring to talk too much.
Zhao Dong and the medical staff waiting behind helped Cheng Cezhi away.
The girl's eyes fell on Wu Su, and she smiled slightly: "Since you have recognized me, there is no need for me to hide my purpose - where is ace?"
Wu Su was already prepared.
He took a deep breath and asked slowly, "What's your purpose in looking for him?"
There was a shy look on the girl's face, she tapped the ground with her toes, and said:
"Confess."
Ye Jia in the distance: "..."
-Since Cheng Cezhi is safe now, he is not needed here for the time being.
He turned around, ready to leave.
Suddenly, Ye Jia felt a familiar aura appear beside him.
A cold, bloody smell diffused from the torn mythical creature.
Ye Jia's back suddenly stiffened.
The boy's soft and hoarse voice broke the silence and asked peacefully:
"Brother, who is she?"