The location Cheng Huaying chose was a time-honored private restaurant, which was located in a small road, so it would be hard to find without a location.
The facade is not big, but the decoration is exquisite, white simple European style, each table is covered with mint green tablecloth, a small vase on the table, with a blooming white rose inserted, showing a kind of elegance and low-key everywhere petty bourgeoisie style.
"Mr. Cheng's reserved box is on the second floor." The waiter came up to welcome him, looked at the cat in Tang Xi's arms, and hesitated to speak.
"Well, do you allow pets in your store?" Tang Xi asked.
"Not in the lobby, but in the box... as long as the lady can guarantee that it won't run around." The waiter hesitated before saying.
"Okay, I'll take a good look at it." Tang Xi nodded without saying anything.
Judging by the waiter's attitude, the answer is no, and the agreement should be for Cheng Huaying's sake. It seems that Cheng Huaying is not just looking for a restaurant.
The waiter took them up to the second floor and knocked twice on the door of the farthest box.
Tang Xi noticed that this box was the only one that was different from the ones passing by in that it didn't have a nameplate.
"Here we come." Cheng Huaying opened the door himself.
"Yo, hello, Second Uncle Cheng." Tang Xi grabbed the white cat's paw and waved it.
"Excuse me." Pei Qingzhi said.
Cheng Huaying glanced at the combination of the two of them and the cat, with a weird expression on her face, she paused before letting the customers in: "Come in, Xiaofang, you have made the kitchen ready for serving food."
"Okay." The waiter nodded and went down.
"Why are you bringing the cat?" Cheng Huaying asked casually.
"Anyway, it's very good." Tang Xi took a cushion and put it on an empty chair, then put the white cat on it, and said: "Be good, don't make trouble, or I will throw you into the hot pot."
"..." Cheng Huaying's face was dark, and he licked the cat's head, "What are you talking about, I..."
However, at that moment, his movements completely froze.
"Meow~" The white cat stood up on the mat, arched its back, and let out a low cry. Its snow-white hairs stood on end like fried hairs, and a faint aura appeared all over its body.
At the same time, Cheng Huaying also had the same aura.
"This..." Tang Xi was dumbfounded.
"Huh?" A dark shadow flashed beside him, and Xie Changan was already standing next to Cheng Huaying, looking in surprise at the place where his hand touched the white cat.
"Xie Chang'an, what's going on?" Tang Xi asked subconsciously.
"Hmm... no way?" Xie Changan looked at Cheng Huaying and at the white cat with an incredulous expression on his face.
"Hey, don't be tricky! What's going on?" Tang Xi glared at him.
"In this case, it can only be of the same origin." Xie Changan frowned, "Humans and cats... have the same origin? Are you kidding me? And this spiritual power fluctuation is very familiar, very familiar..."
"Have you seen this fluctuation of spiritual power?" Tang Xi asked, but seeing Xie Chang'an's pensive expression again, he couldn't help shouting, "Xie Chang'an! Xie Chang'an!"
"Xie Chang'an..." Cheng Huaying read the name once, and a painful expression suddenly appeared on his face.
"Second Uncle Cheng, are you okay?" Tang Xi hesitated for a while, but still didn't reach out to touch him.
It can be seen that the spiritual power between one person and one cat has formed a perfect cycle. If a third party is forced to intervene, no one can tell what will happen.
"Stand back a little bit." Xie Changan stretched out his hand to stop him.
Tang Xi frowned slightly, and pulled Pei Qingzhi back.
Suddenly, she remembered what Bai Xue said, don't trust the underworld too much.
After getting along for a long time, she didn't feel that Xie Changan had any malice towards her, but Bai Wuchang had a criminal record for white lies. She didn't suspect that Xie Changan lied to her about the ghost gate, but there were definitely some things that Xie Changan knew, or he guessed but didn't tell her. After all, in this matter, their sources of information are too unequal.
"Boom boom boom."
At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the box, and the sweet voice of the waiter came from outside: "Mr. Cheng, we are serving."
"Wait a moment." Tang Xi shouted, "Please put it on the table at the door. We will take it by ourselves later. It is not convenient now."
"Ah, yes." The waiter was taken aback before responding.
Then came the clink of dishes, and then the sound of footsteps fading away.
It took Tang Xi a while to open the door, and she saw eight dishes and one soup on the long table in the corridor, as well as sober red wine and a jug of freshly squeezed orange juice. She beckoned and signaled Pei Qingzhi to come over and move the things in first, lest the waiter would see it strangely and even think that something happened inside.
He closed the box door and locked it again, only to see Cheng Huaying and the white cat floating off the ground.
"Second Uncle Cheng... is he alive?" Pei Qingzhi asked with a wooden face.
"Really." Tang Xi looked up at the person floating in mid-air that completely violated the laws of physics.
Not only Cheng Huaying, but the white cat is also alive. While a bone age of 38 is a bit odd, it's a cat otherwise... wait!
Turning her head, she blurted out and asked, "How old is Second Uncle Cheng?"
"This..." Pei Qingzhi was stunned, and hesitated, "Thirty, less than forty? I don't know the details, after all, I'm not familiar with it. Second Uncle Cheng has never held a birthday party in public, and it has always been mystical. .”
"Let me ask." Tang Xi immediately took out her phone.
Within a few minutes, Cheng Yihang's message came back: 38.
Tang Xi's eyes narrowed—such a coincidence? No, it can't be a coincidence.
Soon, Cheng Yihang also sent the next message: What's wrong
Tang Xi replied "It's okay", then looked up at the person and the cat in the sky, his eyes were very serious.
"What did you think of?" Pei Qingzhi asked softly.
"That's not right. Uncle Cheng's soul is complete and there is no trace of fragmentation." Tang Xi shook his head, denying himself, then went to look at the white cat, and said to himself, "The cat's soul is a bit weak, but... it is also complete. Strange , Where does the spiritual power on it come from, why haven't I felt it? It's so strange."
Pei Qingzhi pointed to Xie Changan's back.
Tang Xi gritted her teeth. Even if this guy didn't know before, he probably guessed it now, so he just didn't tell her!
"It's not that I won't tell you." Although Xie Chang'an turned his back to her, he seemed to hear her slander, and said, "I'm just not completely sure yet, after all... If things are really as I speculated, then The situation in the underworld is probably worse than I expected."
"Is he someone you know?" Tang Xi stepped forward and stood side by side with him, and asked calmly, "Or is his soul a ghost you know?"
Xie Changan glanced at her in surprise.
"Your reaction told me." Tang Xi snorted coldly.
"I'm still not sure." Xie Changan sighed, and said helplessly, "I thought my 150-year stay in the world was already the limit, but I didn't expect him to choose a more decisive method."
"Him?" Tang Xi frowned, and blurted out, "Could it be... reincarnation?"
"The gate of ghosts is closed, and the passage between the human world and the underworld is cut off. However... there is actually still a way from the underworld to the human world." Xie Chang'an said.
"Reincarnation Well." Tang Xi replied.
"It's not that ghost messengers can't be reincarnated." Xie Changan said, "If you don't want to continue to be a ghost messenger, you can choose to resign and re-enter reincarnation, and the achievements of being a ghost messenger over the years will be converted to the next life as a blessing. So all along, there are quite a few ghosts who choose reincarnation, after all, not everyone can endure the loneliness of hundreds or thousands of years."
"Re-entering reincarnation, is it no different from ordinary people?" Tang Xi said.
"Of course. The way of heaven must be balanced." Xie Changan said without hesitation, "It is absolutely impossible to reincarnate with the memory of the underworld."
"What if..." Tang Xi pondered for a while before saying, "How about separating the soul from the memory?"
Xie Changan looked at her with a hint of admiration and pride.
"So..." Tang Xi pointed at Cheng Huaying, gritted his teeth, "Is he really a ghost who came to the human world through the well of reincarnation? And he found a way to send his own memory to the human world?"
"I heard one thing." Pei Qingzhi said suddenly, "Actually, there have been rumors that Cheng Huaying is not the Cheng family's biological son, but the child brought back by Mrs. Cheng after a trip."
"Then why is it still just a rumor?" Tang Xi was puzzled.
"Because Mrs. Cheng's cross-border trip lasted for more than half a year." Pei Qingzhi explained, "It is possible to bring her back, and it is not impossible to be pregnant before departure. There is no difference, so it has always been a private rumor, and not many people believe it."
"I always feel... there are very few ghosts who can do such crazy things." Tang Xi murmured.
"There just happened to be one." Xie Changan continued.
"I think about the same as you do." Tang Xi said with a relaxed expression.
If their guess is right, that may be the best news. They can know the real situation of the underworld after the gate of ghosts is closed.
But at this moment, Cheng Huaying and the white cat in the air gradually began to descend, and the aura around them also faded.
"Meow!" The white cat suddenly jumped up and threw itself into Tang Xi's arms.
"Are you okay?" Tang Xi touched its head, only to find that its body temperature had returned to normal.
So... the sudden illness, is it because Cheng Huaying returned to Jiangnan City this morning, so he had an induction? Then last time... By the way, last time Cheng Huaying came to the house! Maybe it was that close proximity that triggered something, but unfortunately, if the cat hadn't hid at that time and let Cheng Huaying hug it, maybe the problem would have been solved long ago!
If you think about it further, Cheng Huaying and Baimao have been in Jiangnan City for so many years, and neither side has responded. It seems that it is not so easy to trigger. Maybe that time she stuffed a human soul into the body of the white cat, and pressed some switch
A cat that has been a human can no longer be an ordinary cat.
"Is he alright?" Pei Qingzhi asked worriedly.
Cheng Huaying had already fallen back to the ground, but it was obvious that there seemed to be something tiny flowing under the skin, and the expression on his face kept changing, not entirely pain, but also confusion, shock, fear and sorrow, just like a palette Wonderful.
"I'll help him." Xie Changan said, stepped forward, pressed his shoulders, stretched his head over, and pressed his forehead against his forehead.
In an instant, a gust of cold wind blew up around the two of them, forcing Tang Xi to drag Pei Qingzhi back a step.
"This breath is so cold." Pei Qingzhi shuddered.
"The source of the ghost's power is Yin Qi, how can it not be cold." Tang Xi said.
Circle after circle of substantive Yin Qi slowly dissipated, causing the food on the table to lose its heat.
"Ah, what a waste." Tang Xi pouted and complained, "Would you like to treat me to dinner? I'm starving to death..."
Pei Qingzhi stretched out his hand, and there was a fruit candy wrapped in multicolored glass candy paper in his palm: "Only this, it will pad your stomach."
"Are you Doraemon?" Tang Xi's eyes sparkled.
"Your Doraemon alone." Pei Qingzhi peeled off the candy and stuffed it into her mouth.
"Boom~" There was a loud noise, and the table full of food could not escape the fate of destruction, and the tables and chairs were blown away together.
Tang Xi immediately activated the defensive barrier to protect herself and Pei Qingzhi.
"Meow meow!" The white cat was like an ordinary cat now, screaming in fright, desperately grabbing her clothes and trying to escape by jumping over her shoulders.
"Be good, be good, baby, it's fine." Tang Xi gently stroked the fur on its back, and it took a long time to calm down.
Xie Changan let go of his hand, took a step back, with a rare joyful smile on his face: "Welcome back, my friend."
Cheng Huaying blinked her eyes, raised her hand and rubbed her temples, and it took a long time to slightly integrate the huge flow of memory forcefully poured in, and said angrily: "I don't want to see you at all, okay? It's been a hundred and fifty years, how do you Haven't disappeared yet?"
"Soon." Xie Changan said calmly.
"The last time I asked you when you would step down as reincarnation, you said soon." Cheng Huaying said.
"Well, I remember all of this. It seems that there is basically no memory loss." Xie Changan nodded in satisfaction.
"..." Cheng Huaying froze for a moment before saying, "So I hate you the most, why are you the only one left."
"I'm really sorry that I'm the only one left." Xie Changan sighed with sincerity on his face, "But it's true that I'm the only one left, so you can only make do with it."
"..."
"Pfft—" Tang Xi couldn't help laughing.
It was the first time I saw that Xie Changan could be so funny.
However, their relationship is actually very good!
"Mr. Cheng?" An anxious voice sounded outside the door, "Mr. Cheng? What happened?"
Cheng Huaying came back to his senses, looked at the messy box, was silent for a moment, and replied: "Is the bamboo box empty today? Send another table to the next door according to the dishes just now."
"... Ah, good." The waiter took a long time to answer.
"She probably thought we quarreled so much that we knocked over the table." Tang Xi said.
"Never mind him." Cheng Huaying kicked away the chair blocking the way.
"It seems that memory does have a slight influence on personality." Tang Xi appraised him.
The memory of thirty-eight years of being "Cheng Huaying" has not disappeared, but the memory of hundreds of years of being a ghost messenger has been integrated - how can mere decades be compared with hundreds of years? Changes in temperament, behavior and habits are inevitable.
After some tossing, the three of them, one ghost and one cat finally moved to the next room.
As for the waiter's face when he went into the original box to clean up, Tang Xi didn't want to know, it was Cheng Huaying's fault anyway, and no matter how delicious this restaurant was, she would never come again!
"I told you to invite you to dinner. The food in this restaurant is really good. Try it." Cheng Huaying took a plate, picked up a pile of faraway dishes with serving chopsticks, and pushed them to Tang Xi.
"Second Uncle Cheng, I'm not used to your enthusiasm." Tang Xi rolled her eyes.
"I used to be cold?" Cheng Huaying was puzzled, and went to see Pei Qingzhi again.
"It's not indifferent." Pei Qingzhi thought for a while before saying, "Although Second Uncle Cheng has been traveling all over the world, he was cultivated by the elite education of a wealthy family when he was a child. There is a sense of distance in his bones, or it is the etiquette of dealing with people-this kind of thing We more or less have. But now, more... grounded?"
He hesitated for a long time before finding a suitable adjective.
"That's right." Cheng Huaying was stunned, picked up the wine glass, drank it down, and said, "Under the impact of hundreds of years of memory, for me, the life of these thirty years is really vulnerable. "
"Then, who is this ghost messenger who has existed for hundreds of years?" Tang Xi asked.
"Guess?" Cheng Huaying raised an eyebrow at her, picked up the red wine bottle, and poured herself another glass.
"Your power is too powerful, even surpassing Bai Wuchang, so you can't be an ordinary ghost agent." Tang Xi said casually, "Besides, ordinary ghost agents can't do the stupid thing of separating soul and memory into the well of reincarnation. Are you afraid that you won’t be able to retrieve your memory when you die of old age? There are very few who dare to do this. Coupled with Xie Changan’s attitude... that’s right, Mr. Hei Wuchang.”
"Hahahaha..." Cheng Huaying couldn't help laughing, "Sure enough, he is also optimistic about the person."
"One more thing." Tang Xi added, "I've seen Sister Yun modify the memory of a living person, and she needs to use spells to assist her. But last time in the funeral home, you can modify the memory directly with spiritual power. This point is different from that of Xie Changan. way is very similar.”
"After all, my soul body has been a ghost messenger, and the technique I figured out is closer to the ghost messenger." Cheng Huaying nodded.
"Stop talking nonsense, what's going on in the underworld?" Xie Changan couldn't help but ask.
"I've been away for more than 30 years, how do I know?" Cheng Huaying gave him a blank look, paused, and said, "However, as long as there are new babies born in the past two years, at least the well of reincarnation hasn't fallen yet. Bar."
"Occupied? At least?" Xie Chang'an felt terrified when he heard his words.
"How much do you know now?" Cheng Huaying asked after being silent for a while.
"Not many." Tang Xi said while removing the crab in his hand, "The yin energy of the Jiuyou Underworld has leaked out, and the ghosts and ghost messengers infesting the underworld will inevitably flow into the human world, and the gates of ghosts will be closed. But when the underworld stays On the day when all the souls of the dead go to reincarnation, and no newly-dead ghosts enter the underworld, the cycle of the six realms will be completely cut off, and the human world will be destroyed."
Xie Changan glanced at her in surprise.
"Besides you, I also have my own source of news." Tang Xi smiled at him.
"This is roughly the case, but the situation in the underworld may be much more serious than you imagined." Cheng Huaying lowered her voice, and a serious expression appeared on her always smiling face.
"How serious is it?" Xie Changan asked.
"Lord Hades, he's gone." Cheng Huaying said.
"Cough cough cough..." Tang Xi couldn't help but choked on the ginger vinegar dipped in crab meat.
"Eat slowly, don't worry." Pei Qingzhi handed her a glass of orange juice, and when the plate was tilted, a pile of peeled snow-white crab meat was poured into her bowl.
"I'm fine." Tang Xi took two mouthfuls of orange juice and waved her hand.
"What do you mean 'Lord Hades is gone'? Your lord is so powerful... He has been sitting in the position of Hades for two thousand years!" Xie Changan was shocked.
"The vicious and vicious ghosts in the 18th floor of hell are infected by Yin Qi, and even the ghost messengers have become monsters. The underworld is in chaos." Cheng Huaying held the wine glass and said heavily, "In order to protect the last pure land of the well of reincarnation, Lord Yama , the body turned into a seal, the soul flew away, and I... was sent to the world through the well of reincarnation with his last strength. The reincarnation of ghosts cannot retain the memory of the underworld. It was originally planned that the person who has the memory would look for the soul, which is very easy, but no one thought that when entering the well of reincarnation, due to a mistake, this part of the memory would actually fall into the body of a cat—can you Expect a cat to understand human memory?"
"This is really unlucky." Tang Xi sympathized. But... it really was because the cat had been a cat for a day that it touched the sleeping memory, so it could be considered... God's will
Cheng Huaying scratched her hair, and said helplessly: "At that time, there were already infected ghosts attacking the reincarnation well, probably accidentally bumped into it in the chaos, and threw my memory into the animal way."
"Then... what about your lord?" Xie Changan trembled.
"Before I jumped into the well of reincarnation, the last thing I saw was the adult body incarnated as a seal, refusing all the yin energy and infested ghosts from the seal." Cheng Huaying said, "The souls waiting for reincarnation in the well of reincarnation will be protected , and when there is no more soul at the reincarnation well, the seal will be dissipated, and the whole underworld will completely become a lair of Yin energy."
"There was a newborn born yesterday. The employees of our company asked for leave two days ago and said they were pregnant to go to the maternity check-at least for now, Samsara Well is fine." Pei Qingzhi said.
"But I don't know how long we can hold on." Cheng Huaying said irritably, "Especially there are no ghosts guarding the Samsara Well now, and it is up to the Dao of Heaven to judge merits and demerits spontaneously and enter the Six Realms. I hope there will be no trouble."
Pei Qingzhi and Tang Xi looked at each other, feeling worried.
It is indeed a big problem that there are no ghost guards stationed. If there is a ghost who has committed evil in his lifetime, after being punished in the underworld, heaven will judge him to be a mouse in the next life... who would willingly jump into the animal realm
"It's useless to think so much." Xie Chang'an stared at Cheng Huaying and said, "Did your lord send you to the human world, did you tell me what to do to save this catastrophe?"
"My lord said that to reopen the gate of hell, we must first seal the raging Yin Qi back to the Nine Nether Dimension, and then we can talk about rebuilding order." Cheng Huaying said.
"You are right, but how can you seal back such a huge Yin Qi?" Xie Changan asked.
"This..." Cheng Huaying scratched her cheek, thinking hard.
"Seal." Tang Xi threw away the crab shell, wiped his hands with a wet paper towel, and said thoughtfully, "Leaving aside the method, one condition must be met first: where does the power of the seal come from? Those who can seal the Nine Nether Queue Power is beyond the reach of human beings, don't tell me to seal it, you two."
"No, the memory is too messy, wait for me to sort it out." Cheng Huaying continued rubbing his temples, and said after a while, "My lord said, in fact, the Jiuyou Dique originally had a seal left by the ancient power, it was only a hundred Fifty years ago, due to unknown reasons, the seal was broken, but the foundation is still there, there is no need to rebuild the seal, as long as the original seal is repaired, the difficulty should be directly reduced by dozens of levels."
"Is there a map?" Tang Xi looked at him with burning eyes.
Cheng Huaying was startled, then pointed to her head, helplessly: "I need time."
"So, yes." Tang Xi also smiled.
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