Daily life of civil servants in the prefectural government

"Drip-drip-"

The alarm clock that was set when entering the school suddenly rang, and the crisp sound broke the calm atmosphere in the room.Su Xiyan picked up the phone and looked at it. It was 3:30, and before they knew it, they had already wasted nearly three hours in this place.The sunset time in autumn and winter is earlier, and they must leave here before five o'clock, otherwise the legendary big snake that dragged a large living person would become a new threat.

"Let's go," Cui Zhao rarely took the initiative to speak, with a little anxiety in his handsome brows.He turned his head, looked at the resentful people immersed in the past, and assigned them tasks in short sentences.

"Next, when we enter the library, Su Xiyan and I will take the lead. No matter what problems we have ahead, we will take care of them. The only request I ask of you is to keep up with the team."

"Once you fall behind or fall behind, we are not responsible for rescue."

Cui Zhao's words peeled off the harmonious and friendly skin of the team. Everyone was silent, and the young disciples clenched their magic weapons and stood behind their leader in a line.

They didn't have any objection to Cui Zhao's words. The relationship between them was not that of close teammates. To describe them more practically, they were considered competitors.

He Chuguo is different from He Han, the brat who tricked Su Xiyan and the others over with a single meal. The conditions he offered to Longhushan and Yushouzong were all very much needed by them.

Whoever can really resolve this matter, within a year their sect will be able to recruit disciples in C City with maximum freedom within the limits.This method of recruiting disciples is not to beat gongs and drums and make a big show, but to move quietly, and to see talented disciples who can talk to each other.

It sounds pitiful, but it is already a dream treatment for the sect.

These days, 80.00% of people who take people to recruit disciples will be turned over to the police station, punished for the crime of spreading feudal superstition, and may even be labeled as a human trafficker.It is easier to ask for money than to ask for people. Now their disciples can only be accepted into the door after detailed communication and multiple assessments.

With the development of the times, the source of disciples has always been a knot in the hearts of the elders of the sect, and they feel melancholy when they think about it.Therefore, they will try their best to complete this mission. If this mission can be accomplished, it will be smoother when recruiting disciples later.

Sensing their sudden seriousness, Su Xiyan cast a questioning look at Cui Zhao.Cui Zhao's attitude changed too quickly, which is not normal. Although he had maintained an attitude of indifference towards these people before, he would still help them at critical moments.

It's not his style to say such indifferent words suddenly, it's more like a decision he had to make after feeling threatened.

Cui Zhao felt that the itchy flesh on his waist was poked twice, he suppressed a smile and lowered his head.

"Don't make trouble."

The lowered voice was slightly magnetic, and Su Xiyan was startled unconsciously, and then poked her finger up again with a bit of embarrassment.

"what happened?"

"This place is not safe," Cui Zhao raised his hands to signal himself to surrender, "I can feel that there are other things underground here."

"Other things," Su Xiyan was surprised, as if thinking of something.

"Is it that kind of rumor? The school building is originally a mass grave or something, but I don't seem to see many ghosts here." To be precise, except for those few ghosts, I have hardly seen it. Other ordinary ghosts, as a school where so many people died, this place is not cleanly normal.

Su Xiyan didn't pay much attention to this at first, but now that she was reminded, she immediately felt uneasy.

Cui Zhao knew what he was doing when he saw the sparkle in his eyes, stretched out his hand to scratch his nose, and sighed helplessly.

"What are you thinking, this was not a mass grave before."

"That is?"

"It's a yin house. I've noticed it before. The earth qi here gathers and the yin qi surrounds it. It's a good location for a yin house."

Su Xiyan looked around with some doubts, but his yin and yang eyes were good enough to see ghosts and gods, but it was too limited to see the terrain.The human eye cannot see the terrain like an unmanned aerial camera.

On the other side of Longhu Mountain, someone couldn't help but speak.

"This place can be regarded as a good place to be a yin house. The terrain is flat and the sun is not strong, but there are no unique good crypts here. At most, it is suitable for a family's ancestral tomb, so how can it be called a good yin house? What about the address?"

The person who spoke was Zhang Qizhong, a very young and honest man. In Longhu Mountain, he mainly studied Fengshui acupuncture points.Because his skills are not weak, he was called on this time by the way.

Bai Yueying asked him to interrupt suddenly, anxiously, she could only put on a gentle look and tried to persuade him to come back, but she didn't expect to be stubbornly returned by this person.

"Junior Sister, don't stop me. I have no other intentions. I just disagree with Mr. Cui's statement."

That being said, it’s because you think others are wrong, so you are not convinced.

Bai Yueying stomped her feet secretly, but she didn't stop her several times, so she simply let him go.What did he think she was afraid of?You really didn't see the sticky atmosphere of those two, did you?Then if you don't have the vision to see the ground, you can squeeze up, and if you don't get beaten, it's considered merciful.

She snorted, put away the wound medicine on her body, and was ready to apply the medicine to her straight male senior brother later.

Cui Zhao was not as irritable as she thought. In the past, he was indeed too lazy to care for people, and would throw them out when he was annoyed.But after Su Xiyan came, he restrained a lot, or should I put it this way, his patience would improve a lot when Su Xiyan was by his side.

Now he is in a good mood, so he replied patiently to Zhang Qizhong, the straight man who bumped into him.

"The terrain of the Yin House is not limited to the surroundings. There are no good crypts here now, but how do you know that there were no good places here hundreds or even thousands of years ago?"

Thousands of years have passed, the sea has changed, and the terrain here will definitely change a lot under the polishing of the years.But the people who have been buried will not move, and what is even more rare is that the monster guarding the house has never left.

Cui Zhao thought that he saw some scale residues on the edge of a certain empty classroom before, and he felt a little headache. It is easier to manage when he is mature, but it is easy to cause headaches if he has a stubborn temper that has not yet matured.

Cui Zhao rolled his eyes and listened to the conversation between the two of them. He saw Zhang Qizhong being dragged away secretly by Bai Yueying with a face full of enlightenment. These things in his mind were slowly connected together, but there were still some key things missing to be complete. put together.

When the head is in the process of thinking, the hands are easy to be free to do some strange little movements.

Cui Zhao watched Su Xiyan's hand stretch out naturally, he quietly put his hands around his arms, and moved closer inadvertently.Who would have thought that the hand didn't wrap around his waist as he thought, but grabbed the soul lock around his waist and buckled it boredly.

The texture of the soul lock is special, and there is a refreshing coolness in the hand.Su Xiyan pinched them one by one like pinching Buddhist beads, and then lowered her head when she pinched something with a different shape, and suddenly made a sound of surprise.

"Cui Zhao, you brought this thing too?"

What hung on Cui Zhao's waist on the Soul Lock was the guillotine that looked like scrap iron, but now the guillotine had been shrunk hundreds of times, and turned into a small pendant the size of a finger, neatly hanging on the chain.

The rust on the whole body adds a bit of retro feeling to it, which is quite delicate.

Su Xiyan squeezed it in his hand and played with it for a while, and then raised his head slowly after a while, and found that there was black air on Cui Zhao's handsome face.

He was a little surprised, thinking that his action, which was the same as pulling his waistband, made him a little unhappy, so he quickly retracted his hand, and secretly stuffed a strawberry marshmallow to please him.

Unexpectedly, the blackness on Cui Zhao's face didn't decrease but increased, he stuffed the strawberry marshmallows into his mouth depressedly, and stopped talking.Su Xiyan looked at his sulking look, a little puzzled, turned around and saw that other people were holding talisman papers and holding weapons, staring intently at the door of the library, he also took out two talismans and held them not talking anymore.

It was in this dull atmosphere that Zhu Dilong opened the door again.

"Welcome everyone, the second offline meeting of the book club will start here."

Su Xiyan pursed her lips, and was the first to walk into the reading room that appeared inexplicably, followed by Cui Zhao.The approximate area of ​​the house is not much different from the previous hall. After all, it is impossible to make the space here bigger.

The soft light effect brought by the exquisite door at the entrance disappeared, and the deserted and messy interior appeared in front of them.Stacks of wooden frames were placed indoors, with a distance of nearly half a meter between them, and the air was filled with a dusty smell of ink.

Su Xiyan moved a step to the right, looking sideways at the neatly stacked books on the wooden shelf.They didn't know how long they had been sitting here, with cobwebs and accumulated dust obscuring the words on the spine.Even if he didn't get close, Su Xiyan could figure out that the baptism of time must have made the pages of those books withered and brittle, and with a little force, they would be broken into several pieces like the school motto he took off outside.

Su Xiyan's eyes jumped, and he found a black shadow on the ground at the end of the wooden frame.

It was the shadow coming through the gaps in the books, and it fell quietly on the ground, with its wrists stretched, as if someone was carefully selecting the books he wanted to read with the back of the wooden shelf.

Su Xiyan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she enjoyed grabbing the corner of Cui Zhao's clothes with her palm, but unexpectedly, it was empty.Turning around, I realized that Cui Zhao was two steps behind him, staring at Zhu Dilong thoughtfully.

"what happened?"

Cui Zhao stared at Zhu Dilong without turning his head. The people behind them naturally thought that there was something tricky about him. A group of people tensed up and looked at him vigilantly.

Su Xiyan also took a few more glances. The basic ethics of being a puppeteer allowed him to make an analysis for him naturally when he made eye contact.The limbs are weak, the complexion is pale, and apart from the fact that it has a soul, and the eyes are a little quicker, this is simply a half-finished doll, a finished product in a hurry, and it can't pose any threat to them.

Cui Zhao's eyes paused for a few seconds on Zhu Dilong's abrupt belly, and then slipped down.

"I was wondering, did they match the clothes on purpose?"

Zhu Dilong wore an ill-fitting tuxedo on his upper body, but a very trendy pair of orange beach trousers on his lower body, half-exposed long-haired calves and a pair of cloth shoes that matched Taoist attire.

This outfit is really a mixture of various painting styles, ugly and very characteristic.

The corner of Su Xiyan's mouth twitched, and without thinking, she reached out and twisted the soft flesh on Cui Zhao's waist.At this time, there is still time to pay attention to these things. Why doesn't he think about the big red and green ball of wool he hides in the bedside table, what's there to laugh at others?

Cui Zhao almost jumped up directly, he clutched his waist, and stared at Su Xiyan sadly, with a slightly aggrieved expression.The abdomen of a cat is very sensitive, and the soft belly has never been easy for people to touch.

If it was someone else, Cui Zhao could directly smash the opponent's dog's head, but if it was Su Xiyan, he could only lower his head aggrievedly, and let him poke or twist as he wanted.He swore that when he went back, he would have revenge!

The people following them tried their best to hold back their expressions, and finally they all entered the door smoothly.But not long after stepping in, Bai Yueying couldn't help but let out a very soft exclamation.

Su Xiyan looked at her, and it was a figure reflected on the ground.

He pointed to the side he had seen before, the two factions separated tacitly, one team followed him and the other followed Cui Zhao, walking quietly and lightly.

There are messy footprints on the ground, some from the past and some from the past, as if not long ago, many people walked back and forth in this abandoned library, kicking up the dust that had accumulated on the ground for an unknown amount of time.Among them, a line of footprints separated from it and turned into the bookshelf alone.

Su Xiyan clasped the talisman paper in his hand silently, and took steps along the footprints. The subtle rustling sound of the soles of the shoes rubbing against the ground continued to roll in his ears, and his tense nerves were pulled to the highest alert level.

He walked to the edge of the row of bookshelves and listened attentively. There was a slight sound of pages turning slowly, as if there was really a person leaning on the back of the bookshelf and carefully flipping through his favorite books.

Su Xiyan remembered the second offline meeting of the book club that Zhu Dilong was talking about. Could it be possible that these guys really set up a serious book club?

With a sneer in his heart, a crumpled piece of talisman paper flicked with his strength, and it rolled into it with a gurgling sound.Bai Yueying's uncle followed behind him, looking at the gray marks on the ground behind the bookshelf, he couldn't hold back the three words that rolled out in surprise in his throat.

"Petrochemical Talisman?"

Su Xiyan responded nonchalantly, guessing in his heart that the talisman paper was about to be used, and took a quick step forward while holding a thunderbolt talisman.

Then, his scalp exploded, and he almost couldn't hold back his exclamation.

Behind the bookshelf, the little girl whose lower body was petrified was raising her head and showing a sweet smile. She was holding a book with withered paper in her hand, which looked like it had been read a third of the time.

The chill of being frightened behind mixed with the anger that rose later, turned into a lukewarm air, which hid in Su Xiyan's heart.

Bai Yueying's uncle stuck out his head, he wiped his eyes in confusion, and reached out to get the materials he put in his bag.

"Don't worry about it, she's Xiao Wei." Su Xiyan's voice was cold.

"But Xiao Wei already..." Bai Yueying's uncle said halfway in surprise, and then showed a dazed expression.Xiao Wei was one of the children who committed suicide by jumping off a building some time ago. Their bodies had already been cremated by their families, so what appeared in front of them now could only be puppets and the like, most likely puppets.

She had a relationship with the reading club during her lifetime, and was lured to commit suicide. It is not impossible for her soul to be lured here to be a doll.

Having said that, Su Xiyan felt that the boredom in his heart was getting heavier.He is a puppet master himself, Zhang Guoren once told him that he has been searching for so many years, except for the heir whom his younger brother found, and he has never seen a puppet master again.

After all these years of constant changes, he is probably the only descendant of the puppeteer.

He has no way to stop the things committed by those ancestors in the past, but at this time when he is the only descendant, there are so many people using puppetry to do evil, it is really annoying to think about it.Moreover, he was also involved in the matter of trapping and killing children, Su Xiyan felt ruthless in his heart, no matter what the puppeteer was, he would let him know the fate of annoying a puppeteer.

Cui Zhao quickly walked over to meet him, and what they saw was a boy, who was also the puppet of the child who committed suicide before.

They continued to walk forward in silence, and the number of dolls standing still in the bookshelf gradually increased. They were either standing or lying around the side of the bookshelf, holding an open book in their hands.

Their faces are all young, and their facial features are still a little immature, but they have been ruthlessly cut off the possibility of maturity.They held the books but didn't look at them. Each of them turned their heads and smiled, and they didn't know who they were looking at.

This weird and silent gaze made everyone feel like they were on their backs. They sped up their pace a little, passed the area full of bookshelves as quickly as possible, and came to the center of the hall, where tables and chairs were placed. place for reading.

What they didn't know was that the puppets who turned their heads and smiled after they passed by slowly turned their heads back again, staring down at the books in their hands stiffly.

Seeing the slightly empty space ahead, Su Xiyan's expression remained unchanged, but his slightly faster breathing betrayed his mood.

Cui Zhao didn't even look at it, he had already held Su Xiyan's hand in his warm palm, he gently wiped off the sweat in his hand, and then let go of his hand with a piece of talisman that Su Xiyan had stuffed in.

It was still a petrified talisman, and the gray traces of the stones spread across the ground.

This kind of talisman is newly learned by Su Xiyan. It is a kind of control talisman. After throwing it out, it can instantly petrify the lower body of the victim and the ground.It's a bit like the eyes of Medusa in the legend, but the actual operation is much weaker than Medusa's attack skills.

This kind of petrification only temporarily turns the surface layer of the enemy's skin into a stone state, and the inside is still his original substance, which cannot be compared with Medusa's method of turning people into stone from the inside out.But if we talk about group control, this is really an excellent talisman paper, and the range of use of this talisman paper can gradually expand with the strength of the user's spiritual power.

Su Xiyan can only petrify a few people when he throws it out, while Cui Zhao's range of petrification will be multiplied when he throws it out.

Bai Yueying's uncle was staring at the petrified ground with a vicissitudes of expression on his face. Fortunately, he still remembered what was going on now. He didn't say anything, but followed Su Xiyan and the others' cautious steps in silence.

The messy tables and chairs on the ground were piled up, leaving a large space in the center.A very large oval conference table used for meetings in ordinary companies was placed there, and each seat had a person sitting with its back facing them.

Their hands are flat on the table, holding a book.Some people even had a teacup in front of them, and hot air rose from the teacup.This desk is completely incompatible with this dusty library. Like the exquisite wooden door, it is also spotless and shiny, as if someone has meticulously maintained it every day.

Su Xiyan inexplicably felt that the scene of those people walking was familiar, but for a moment she couldn't remember where she saw it, until Cui Zhao handed over a piece of information paper.

It was impressively the promotional photo of the book club they had seen before. Everyone was sitting at the table reading a book, even the pages of the book hadn't changed.

Su Xiyan subconsciously followed the innermost direction of the photo and looked towards the table, but unexpectedly met a pair of teary eyes full of fright.

"He Han?!"

Not only He Han, but the three "people" including his uncle He Chuguo were tied up here at some point, with puppet strings implanted in their bodies, and they could only be driven temporarily, sitting here stiffly.

According to the guess of the time, it should be when they were dragged up by the little squad leader and the others, these puppets secretly brought He Chuguo and the others here.

After carefully looking at He Han's body, except for the few puppet strings hanging on him, he was full of vitality, Su Xiyan breathed a sigh of relief.Fortunately, that thing didn't do anything to He Han. If he saw a puppet made of He Han here, he didn't guarantee that he would do something with enthusiasm.

He Chuguo, like his nephew, is in a temporary safe situation, and he is much more stable than He Han.Although panic was unavoidable, at least he was not covered in tears like He Han.

Su Xiyan dared to bet that He Han couldn't move now, if he could, those two tears would have burst out of his eyes, I don't know how stupid it is to cry.

From a certain point of view, it was quite wise for them to connect the puppet line to He Han, because only in this way can the hostages be kept absolutely quiet.

He Chuguo couldn't speak, but his eyes quickly glanced to the side after seeing them.Su Xiyan followed him to look over, her expression suddenly went blank...

No. [-], whose arms were tied up with puppet strings, was showing him a warm and honest smile, with a very bright expression, like a dog who saw his master come back, without the slightest sense of tension or restraint.

That’s right, there’s really nothing to be nervous about for number one, what’s wrong with the dolls sitting around him, he’s also a doll himself.

Su Xiyan suddenly lost his sense of nervousness about the thing behind the scenes. Since he can be a puppet, didn't he feel anything when he implanted the puppet line on No. [-]?

What is the use of you planting puppet strings on the puppet?He can collapse and stand up in minutes.

Su Xiyan suddenly had an impulse, as if he ordered No. [-] to stand up and beat up all the puppets around him, it should be very interesting... right?