Private work
Hearing this key word, Chen Xian frowned lightly. He only remembered that the last time the old liar assigned him private work was nearly half a year ago, and a lot of work was directly handed over to the Bureau of Secrets in the middle... Why did it suddenly happen today? Have a private life again
"Chen Xian?" Mu He raised his head to look at Chen Xian, and asked curiously, "What is private work?"
"Private work is work outside of work." Chen Xian led everyone familiarly to the side and sat down, without any intention of being polite to the old liar, he reached out to pick up the teapot and poured tea for everyone present, "Grandpa Ge, what's the matter?" This time's work should not be easy, after all, its skin is quite expensive... "
Over the years, Chen Xian has taken on a lot of private work, but the highest price is only two to three million one time, which is not even comparable to the salary of those high-level anomalous cases assigned by the Bureau of Secrets.
Of course, a large part of the reason for this is the old liar, because he is not Chen Xian's superior, and he dare not and cannot bear to leave many troublesome jobs in Chen Xian's hands. After all, judging from Chen Xian's savings, Even if he can't get a job for half a year, he may not be able to starve to death, so the old liar will never assign him those jobs that are highly paid but equally dangerous.
Chen Xian had noticed this a long time ago, but he never mentioned it, but at this moment... Chen Xian was really surprised. What kind of private work can be paid as much as 20 million? !
Even if there is, according to the temper of the old liar, it is impossible to assign it to himself. After all, the higher the salary, the more dangerous the private work.
"For this private work, the client is Lao Chan. Let him tell you the specifics."
Suddenly, Xu Yanan spoke abruptly, looked at the old liar cautiously and asked.
"Master Ge, do we need to avoid it?"
Xu Yanan doesn't know what the rules in Yinshi are like, but judging from the rules in the alien circle, private work is a job with a relatively high degree of privacy. Generally, except for the client and the person who takes the living, talk about "deals" No one else will appear on the scene.
"No need." The old liar waved his hand with a cigarette in his mouth, and put his feet in flip-flops on the coffee table, with a smile on his face, as if he didn't pay attention to those so-called rules, "Just listen Listen, just don't talk outside."
The old toad squatted on a chair, holding the long cigarette stick in his hand, and nodded with a smile when he heard the old liar's words, and his attitude towards those rules was similar to that of the old liar, as if he didn't take them seriously.
"Tell me about your private affairs." Holding the teacup, Chen Xian looked at the old toad calmly, wondering what was going on this time, could it be that the old liar had changed his sex
"Probably half a year ago... yes... half a year ago..."
The old toad was smoking the tobacco leaves in his pipe, his cloudy eyes narrowed slowly, as if he was remembering something, his voice became a little distant, as if he was telling a very distant story.
"Since a long time ago... I have been practicing near Meishan Mountain in Dian Province... Most of my apprentices followed me and took root in that mountain range..." Old Toad recalled, while slowly talking, "The Meishan Mountain Range It was like home to me... I knew it all too well... I knew everything about it... but I never thought it would happen."
When the old toad said this, his voice paused for a moment, and a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.
In Yunnan Province, the old toad's cave is on the top of Meishan Mountain. Although it is not the blessed place of cave heaven that Taoists often say, compared with those so-called blessed places of cave heaven, the cave of old toad is not far behind. The cave of less than a hundred feet is Huaiyin. The energy of embracing the yang gathers but does not dissipate, the qi of the earth veins below and the essence of the sun and the moon above it...
"It's about three miles away from my cave... There is a small stream starting from the top of the mountain... The source should be the underground river in the Meishan Mountains..." The old toad's voice became heavy, and the fire on the pipe flickered on and off. Like its cloudy face, "The stream across the mountain has always been extremely clear... until half a year ago... it started to bleed."
"Bleeding?" Chen Xian was taken aback for a moment.
The old toad nodded and took a deep drag on his cigarette.
According to the old toad, that strange vision came from a late night.
That night, it was concentrating on cultivating in the cave, when it suddenly smelled a pungent smell of blood. When it came out of the cave and took a look, it found that there were bursts of blood-colored mist rising from the mountain forest, just like the common sight in the mountain forest. A kind of mist first rose from the ground, and then slowly rose into the air. In a moment, the entire Meishan Mountain was wrapped in this blood mist.
These strange blood mist seem to be evaporated from fresh blood. The bloody smell permeating in the mountain forest makes Chan Yi feel pungent. Meishan seems to have become an invisible battlefield like a flesh and blood mill. There were no remains of any corpses, but the strong blood... only gave Chan Yi an illusion, as if thousands of people were dying in the mountains.
"The fog of blood in the mountain forest lasted for two sticks of incense, and then dispersed, as if it had never appeared before, but the only thing that did not disappear was the smell of blood." As Chanyi spoke, he shook his head slowly. Shaking the pipe, shaking the ashes of the tobacco leaves into the ashtray, "I followed the smell to find the source, and I'm also curious... what can cause such a large-scale vision."
Following the pungent smell, Chan Yi searched in the forest, and soon found the source of the constant bloody smell.
That source is the stream not far from its cave.
The creek that flowed from the cracks in the mountains was once a beautiful place that Shan Yi loved deeply. The water there was so clear and almost transparent that it would never dry up despite the changing seasons. It flowed quietly no matter in spring, summer, autumn or winter, as if it would not be disturbed by the outside world. Affected by all factors, the state of "self" is maintained from beginning to end.
But all this changed after the blood mist appeared.
The meandering stream is like a wound torn from the earth, those once clear and cold streams have all turned into warm blood...
"I checked...they are all blood, not water...they are all real blood...I can feel the breath of life they carry...very weak..." the old toad murmured, seeming to remember the time when he saw that vision for the first time. In the picture, even talking became tense, "About half a stick of incense... the color of the stream began to fade slowly... and then returned to its original state..."
"Finally the water in the stream returned to normal?" Chen Xian asked curiously.
"Yes, it's completely back to normal." The old toad said, his eyes became helpless, "But from that day on, every midnight or so, the stream water will turn into blood, and until today, the phenomenon has not completely disappeared. .”
"Have you ever visited the source of the water?" Chen Xian asked.
"I've seen it." The old toad sighed, and put the pipe aside, "The source of the stream is a crack on the top of Meishan, which is connected to the underground river, so I also wondered if there is something wrong with the underground."
"Did you go in and take a look?" Chen Xian had a hint of curiosity in his eyes, after all, this was the first time he had heard of the stream turning into blood.
"I've been in eleven times, but every time I go in, I'm kicked out." The old toad smiled wryly.
Driven out
Hearing these words, everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay. Could it be that there are other existences in the underground river
"Who kicked you out?" Chen Xian asked curiously.
"It's not someone... It should be an invisible force... It's very similar to a ghost hitting a wall..." Old Toad said, and couldn't help recalling the scene of entering the underground river eleven times, and his eyes became a little confused, " As soon as I entered, I felt a force repelling me as an outsider... That feeling is hard to describe to you... I wandered in for two minutes and didn't investigate deeply... I found myself back at the entrance in the blink of an eye... "
Chen Xian has encountered the phenomenon that the old toad mentioned before, but based on his intuition, the abnormal phenomena he encountered that can be explained by ghosts hitting the wall may be different from the experience of the old toad. After all, it is an abnormal life. For " Domain" should be more sensitive, it is impossible to be easily confused by "domain" like a living person.
"I would like to ask you to go and have a look." The old toad cut to the chase, staring at Chen Xian with his huge eyes, "Master said that you can help me solve this matter, so I would like to trouble you to go to Yunnan Province with me. "
"Can I help you?" Chen Xian was stunned, and looked at the old liar in disbelief, with a helpless expression on his face, "Master Ge, can you stop bragging? You clearly know that this is not what I'm good at..."
Rather than eliminating the abnormal phenomenon, looking for the reason behind the abnormal phenomenon... Chen Xian is better at fighting.
Judging from the current known information, the reason why the stream turned into blood is still unknown. If there is an abnormal life behind it, it's okay, as long as you find the target and get rid of it, but... Chen Xian feels that this is not that simple.
"I happened to see it live two months ago, trust me."
The old liar smiled, leaned forward slightly, and looked at Chen Xian with eyes full of trust.
"Only you can do this."