Mr. Thaumaturgy

Chapter 2 Something Disappeared

When I heard the news, my first reaction was, I thought this is just teasing me.

It took a few seconds to react, and I felt that Lao Zhang was not the kind of person who came here to make such jokes, and he made more than ten phone calls.

"Speak up, kid!"

Didn't hear me speak, the voice from the phone was obviously a lot anxious.

"I'm listening, Brother Zhang, this 'Amulet' doesn't have his own long legs, how could it suddenly disappear."

I turned my head and clamped the phone on my left shoulder and ear, and said while putting on my shirt.

"Forget it, I can't tell you clearly, kid, you quickly give the phone to Master Jiang, and I'll tell Master Jiang, it's so fucking evil."

Lao Zhang urged on the other end of the phone, obviously very anxious.

I nodded and said okay, buckled the belt, put away the phone, and ran towards Master Jiang's bedroom.

After pushing open the door, the room was empty, and there was Master Jiang's phone on the table.

Open it and have a look, addicted!Lao Zhang made more than 30 missed calls to Master Jiang.

No wonder Lao Zhang called me. I’m sorry Mr. Jiang didn’t bring his cell phone.

Just as he was about to walk out of Master Jiang's bedroom, he heard the sound of the shop door being opened.

When he retreated to the door, he found that Master Jiang was holding a bird cage in his left hand and soybean milk fried dough sticks in his right hand.

"Turn left 300 meters and there is a beef noodle. If you are not used to eating soy milk fritters, you can eat it."

Mr. Jiang motioned for me to take away the soy milk and fried dough sticks in his hand. I quickly took it and thanked him: "I'm used to eating. I can live well. I can live a whole day with just a few steamed buns."

"By the way, Mr. Jiang, just now Lao Zhang called you more than [-] times, but you never answered. No, he called me on my mobile phone, and his words were a bit mysterious." I scratched the back of my head and said.

After Master Jiang hung the birdcage, he whistled a few times at the bird inside, patted his clothes and turned around and asked, "What did you say?"

"He said that the 'Amulet' we asked for has gone back. Should you keep calling him? He seems to be in a hurry." I said softly.

Mr. Jiang stopped at the sound of the bird whistling. When he turned to look at me, the expression on his face had solidified. He waved and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up and go to the small room next to me and take a look. Check to see if that box is there."

I nodded and said yes.

I trotted towards the room Master Jiang had mentioned. The room was very empty, and only a few clothes were hung.

In a corner, I saw the box that Lao Zhang gave me.

I picked it up and shook it lightly. There were a few "dong dong dong" sounds, obviously there was something in it.

"Hey, what kind of international joke is this old Zhang, this thing is still there." I muttered in my heart, and walked towards Master Jiang with the box.

Put the box in front of Master Jiang, before I could speak, Master Jiang asked me to open it directly.

To be honest, I haven't seen this Gu Tongman before. When I went to Lao Zhang's house to get it, Lao Zhang had already packed it in a box and didn't even look at it.

With a "hiss", I pulled off the seal inside the box, opened the box and took a look.

"Master Jiang, look." I pointed at the contents of the box and said to Master Jiang.

Inside the box is a support plate, and nothing else,
Although I don't have a deep understanding of Gu Tongman, I have seen this support plate before.

"Could it be that this box originally contained only support plates?" I said suspiciously to Master Jiang.

Master Jiang shook his head and asked back: "Do you think that guy will spend thousands of dollars to let us take a support plate back?"

"No, Lao Zhang looks shrewd." I said.

Although I don't know Lao Zhang very well, that guy is not a fool.

"Go to his place and get that thing." Master Jiang said to me.

I subconsciously asked, "Aren't you always with me?"

"It doesn't take two people to run back and forth to get something, and I still have some things to deal with." Master Jiang said, pointing at the counter, and asked me to take the car keys away.

I was a little bit against going alone, but I didn't want to lose face in front of Master Jiang, so I nodded and said, "Okay."

Before leaving, Lord Jiang gave me a copper coin and said that if I was in danger, I would use the copper coin to stick it on.

"Master Jiang, are you really not going with me?" I opened the car door and asked back.

"Get out!"

Master Jiang gave me a blank look, turned around and went back with the birdcage.

I took a deep breath and thought that this matter was probably not so evil. It was probably that Lao Zhang had installed the wrong thing and put the support plate in Gu Tongman's box.

People always get nervous for a few days, maybe yesterday happened to be Lao Zhang's nervousness.

I played a rolling music in the car, and I drove towards the community where Lao Zhang lived.

As soon as I arrived at the community where Lao Zhang lived, this guy called again. After I answered, Lao Zhang asked me anxiously, "Where are you?"

I turned around and said something about the gate of the community. Lao Zhang said, "Come down immediately" and asked me to wait at the gate of the community.

I said okay, hung up the phone, parked the car in the community parking space, and just got out of the car.

Lao Zhang appeared ten meters in front of me. This guy was bent over with his hands on his knees.

Walking in front of him, I found that Lao Zhang was panting heavily, as if he had run a 5000-meter long-distance race.

When he came to him and was about to speak, he found that there were many red spots on Lao Zhang's neck.

"Brother Zhang, you are out of breath." I said softly, originally wanting to tease Lao Zhang about whether he had a kidney problem.

But when Lao Zhang raised his head, I was startled. His face was as pale as the ice corpses parked in the funeral parlor.

"Follow me quickly." Lao Zhang said while pulling my wrist.

I said yes and asked Lao Zhang if there was something wrong with his health and if I should send him to the hospital for a checkup.

Lao Zhang turned around and waved his hand and said no. When I was walking in front, I suddenly found a problem.

Lao Zhang's back was not the same as yesterday, and his walking posture was obviously arched, as if something was pressing on his back, making him unable to stand up.

When we met yesterday, it was obviously not like this.

I thought of Jiang Ye, but Jiang Ye is old, and it is normal for him to be a little hunchbacked.

When I followed Lao Zhang, the two of them didn't talk much. In order to find some topics, I pointed to Lao Zhang's neck and asked, "Brother Zhang, why are there so many red marks on your neck?"

"Is there?" Old Zhang looked down subconsciously.

"Go home and look for yourself, how can you see your own neck when you lower your head." I said softly.

"I couldn't sleep yesterday. I probably got scratched by something when I woke up today." Lao Zhang said.

When I walked into Lao Zhang's house, I found that Lao Zhang walked up the stairs with a lot of sweat on his face.

"Brother Zhang, we only climbed to the third floor. You see so much sweat on your face. You should go to the hospital first." I said nervously, fearing that Zhang would suddenly die in the next second.

(End of this chapter)