After Marrying the Lord of the Underworld

"Buzzing—"

"Buzzing—"

At six o'clock, the sky is hazy and white.

The phone vibrated beside the pillow, Lu Yingjiu closed her eyes, fumbled a few times before picking it up: "...what's the matter?"

"Chairman Lu, when can you come to the meeting? Can you do it now?" The person on the opposite side was a little flustered, "A new entrustment just arrived, and the ghost killed three or four people one after another. They all said they waited for you to come and deal with it." .”

"I see." Lu Yingjiu still closed his eyes, "I'll come over now."

After hanging up the phone, he sat up with his eyes closed, skillfully put on his slippers, walked to the bathroom and began to wash.

The quality of sleep is not good, he is used to seize every opportunity to catch up on sleep.

After washing his face with cold water, the sleepiness dissipated a little.He went to change again, turned on the light in the living room, and was about to find some bread from the refrigerator before going out.

The cow cat slept in the living room, and when the light came on, it meowed twice.

Lu Yingjiu grabbed the cold toast with one hand, and scratched its chin with the other, causing a grunt.

"Go back to sleep." He said with a smile.

He didn't have time to heat up the bread, so he ate a few mouthfuls coldly, changed his shoes, and prepared to turn off the living room light.

When he turned off the light, he froze for a moment.

On the white wall directly opposite, there seemed to be a little crack and warping.

Could it be that the water leaked somewhere, causing the wall skin to peel off?

Lu Yingjiu just wanted to take a closer look, but in a blink of an eye, the crack disappeared.

The walls are clean.

He frowned slightly, thinking that he was really sleepy.

When he arrived at the basement, he drove that second-hand Honda to the Blue Lantern Festival.

There were almost no cars on the street in the early morning, and the road went smoothly. When he parked the car and walked to the gate of the Blue Lantern Festival, the sky was already very bright.

A few restless exorcists greeted him, and quickly explained the situation to him:

The general thing is that an old man surnamed Cai has been living in the old building for more than 30 years, and the building suddenly became haunted.

Not only that, the ghost also killed four tenants one after another.

The other residents ran away early, only the old man stayed there.

"Old man Cai said that his wife hasn't come home yet, so he must not leave, for fear that his wife will be afraid if he can't find him." Xia Pingan told him like this.

Xia Ping'an is Lu Yingjiu's assistant.

Lu Yingjiu asked: "So where's his wife?"

Xia Pingan replied: "I've been dead for ten years. The old man Cai is crazy, and he doesn't remember it for a long time. I just asked the president for instructions. He meant to see if he can be brought out by force. What do you think?" ?”

"I'll go and have a look at the scene." Lu Yingjiu said.

"Plop, plop, plop—"

"Plop, plop, plop—"

"...What's wrong with you?" Xia Ping'an's voice came from a distance.

Lu Yingjiu came back to her senses: "I'm fine."

"Hey, I just talked to you, and it seems that you didn't respond..."

Lu Yingjiu rubbed her eyebrows: "I may be too tired, please say it again."

"Oh, okay." Xia Pingan began to tell what happened.

Five minutes later, Lu Yingjiu got into the car with several people.

Xia Pingan drove them and quickly brought them to Yihe East Road, where several dilapidated old houses were on the side of the road.

One of them was pulled up by yellow and black warning strips, and the police were guarding it.

Everyone passed through the warning tape and went upstairs.

The stairwell is full of graffiti and small advertisements, and there is a faint smell of gloom and blood.

A few bloody handprints were slapped on the corner, very seeping.

The door on the sixth floor was wide open, and an old man in sweatshirt was sitting on a recliner, mumbling something.

Lu Yingjiu knocked on the door: "Hello?"

The old man didn't respond.

Xia Pingan said in a low voice: "Just walk in directly, he doesn't care much about people."

So Lu Yingjiu walked in and saw the old man clutching a wedding photo in his hand.

Old man Cai's complexion was pale, the whites of his eyes were cloudy, and he looked weak and ignorant of others, looking a little scary.

Lu Yingjiu said again: "Hi, I'm from the Blue Lantern Festival..."

"Bang dang!!"

The corner box fell off.

Lu Yingjiu looked over, and a black cat with scarlet eyes glanced at him, then disappeared under the sofa in an instant.

"Strange." Xia Pingan muttered, "No one has ever said that his family has cats before."

Lu Yingjiu frowned slightly.

He heard chattering in the bedroom.

He opened the bedroom door, and out came a swarm of things.

Ragdoll cat, white rabbit, hamster.

Canaries, monkeys, puppies.

There is even a red snake all over, and a small peacock.

Xia Pingan was dumbfounded: "His family opened a zoo, which is too outrageous. Forget about cats and dogs, why do they even have peacocks?! Is this snake poisonous?! Please don't come here! !"

He hid in a corner in horror.

The animals flocked to Old Man Cai noisily, grabbing his legs.

All of a sudden, the scene was extremely chaotic, with dogs barking and cats barking mixed together, and several birds flying randomly in the air.

Until this time, old man Cai had a smile on his face.

This looks like a breakthrough in communication.

Lu Yingjiu took advantage of the situation and asked, "Are these all your pets?"

This time, old man Cai finally turned his head to look at him: "Yes, I have raised it for many years."

Lu Yingjiu sat down on the sofa again: "Where do you usually go to buy food for them?"

"It's nearby!" Old man Cai patted his shriveled thigh, "I can't walk, I usually go to the nearby pet store! Boy, do you like animals too?"

"I really like it." Lu Yingjiu nodded with a smile, "I have a cat at home."

Old man Cai immediately became enthusiastic, hugged the blue-green peacock, and said, "I like it the most, and it's called Chu Banyang."

"Chu Banyang?" Lu Yingjiu was stunned for a moment, "Your lover's surname is Chu?"

"What?" the old man hummed, "Her surname is Wen."

"Then why did you choose such a name?" Lu Yingjiu tilted her head slightly.

Old man Cai was stunned for a moment.

A certain daze overwhelmed him.

But he said quickly: "It's nothing, because it's called that."

Lu Yingjiu didn't struggle too much, and pointed to the red snake and asked, "What's its name?"

"Ye Feng."

"What about it?" He pointed to the monkey.

"Chen Zheng." The old man replied, and patted the puppy on the head again, "This is Zhang Shuwan."

Lu Yingjiu smiled: "They are all names."

"Of course." The old man still hummed, "They are all my family members, of course they have names."

"Bang dang!!"

Something is missing in the corner again.

The pitch-black cat knocked down the remote control, and stared at Lu Yingjiu with red eyes across half the living room.

"What about it?" Lu Yingjiu pointed to the black cat and asked, "What's its name?"

This time the old man thought for a long time, and he didn't know how long before he hesitated to answer: "It seems to be... It seems to be surnamed Jing."

"Regardless?" Lu Yingjiu asked.

"Oh, that's right!" The old man patted his thigh happily, "How do you know?!"

Lu Yingjiu was also stunned.

Then he said with a smile: "It's okay, I just guessed randomly, I didn't expect to guess right."

——His conversation with the old man was quite fruitful.

Old man Cai felt that he had hit it off, and told him everything: for example, what time in the morning did the screams come from the neighbor's house; for example, who was there when the blood seeped in the corridor; I had heard a knock on the door in the middle of the night.

In the end, the old man was still holding the wedding photo, muttering something.

The rookie ghost exorcist was terrified when he heard it, but the veterans were all calm and composed.

After the question was over, Xia Pingan stepped out of the old man's house and asked, "What do you think? How should this ghost be killed?"

"That ghost is probably his dead wife." Lu Yingjiu said, "Come with me, I have an idea."

Xia Ping'an has unconditional trust in Lu Yingjiu: in every entrustment, Lu Yingjiu has convinced him.

This time will not be an exception.

But after two days of squatting, the female ghost lost her composure and started to show up to kill again.

The corridors and ceilings were oozing blood crazily, Lu Yingjiu walked back and forth in the scarlet expressionlessly, and drove away the screaming female ghost.On that day, the residents of the entire old building came back with the joy of remaining alive after the catastrophe.

Only the old man Cai was crying in the room alone, shouting: "She can't come back...she can't come back...she can't come back..."

A group of animals surrounded him, they were all human, and they tried their best to appease him.

"Live well." Lu Yingjiu told him, "It's for them."

The old man cried and nodded.

And the next moment, he stretched out his hand with weird agility, and firmly grasped Lu Yingjiu's wrist—that strength was also enormous.

With tears in her cloudy eyes, she stared at Lu Yingjiu.

He said, "Lu Yingjiu, your time has come."

"..." Lu Yingjiu frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Do you like them?" Old man Cai didn't answer him, nor did he let go, "Do you like them? Don't you want to take them home?"

Lu Yingjiu smiled: "I like it, but you raised them, how can I take them away?"

"...Yes, you're right. They know where their home is," the old man was still staring at him, opening his mouth to reveal a few shriveled and dark yellow teeth, "but you don't know."

The peacock was beside him, gently pecking at his shirt.

"It has something it wants me to tell you." The old man patted the back of Lu Yingjiu's hand.

"It says to go home as soon as it is dark, or it will be too late."

……

Back in the car, Xia Pingan asked, "Chairman Lu, may I drop you home?"

"Okay." Lu Yingjiu nodded, lowered her seat to catch up on sleep, "Just put me at the bus stop."

He closed his eyes.

In the distance was a huge sunset, falling towards the end of the city, and the scarlet light filled the world.

"Plop, plop, plop—"

"Plop, plop, plop—"

The heartbeat sounded again.

The whole soul is trembling accordingly.

Lu Yingjiu thought to herself, she really should take a good rest.

The car drove silently, and stopped at the bus station when there was still a little light on the horizon.

Lu Yingjiu got up and got out of the car, held the door and said, "Thank you."

"Oh, you're too polite." Xia Pingan said with a smile, "Then I'm leaving?"

"En." Lu Yingjiu nodded, and suddenly called him again, "You're safe."

"What's wrong?" Xia Pingan looked forward, half of his face was covered by thick shadows.

Lu Yingjiu said, "Didn't you die two years ago?"

Xia Pingan didn't answer him.

There was a rustling sound from the back seat, and a small red snake spit out its message, and wrapped it around his neck soundlessly, like a bloody ribbon.

This is the old man's pet snake, and it actually followed them into the car.

The little snake spit out a few more letters.

Xia Pingan reached out and touched the snake's head: "It said, you don't have much time, remember the way home."

Lu Yingjiu wanted to say something else.

The heartbeat sounded again.

"Plop, plop, plop—"

"Plop, plop, plop—"

"Plop, plop, plop—"

Very heavy, almost crazy.

He frowned almost in pain.

When he came back to his senses, he was the only one on the whole street.

Perhaps because of the old man's and Xia Ping'an's advice lingering in his mind, Lu Yingjiu really quickened his pace and walked on the way home.

He completely disappeared in the light of day and returned home.

As soon as he entered the house, the cow cat rubbed against him with its tail upright, meowing.

Lu Yingjiu unconsciously smiled, and turned on the light in the living room.

Bright lights flood the home.

The cow cat is very good, even if he is not at home for a few days, he does not cause any damage.

Lu Yingjiu glanced over, and suddenly, his gaze stayed on the wall directly opposite.

The crack in the wall reappeared.

"Meow-"

A meow sounded from behind.

It was only then that Lu Yingjiu remembered that he hadn't closed the door yet.Looking back, the black cat with scarlet eyes was at the door, sitting obediently.

"Why did you follow?" Lu Yingjiu said, "Your name is... Jing Xian?"

The black cat flicked its tail, stood up, and walked gracefully through the door.

I didn't see myself as an outsider at all...or an outsider cat.

Suddenly there was an unexpected guest at home, and it seemed impossible to drive away.Lu Yingjiu smiled helplessly, closed the door, took off his shoes, and began pouring cat food for them.

The cow cat ate his food, but the black cat was uninterested and just stood by and wagged its tail.

While they were eating, Lu Yingjiu looked at the wall again.

The crack is gone again.

He thought to himself that he was so tired that he was hallucinating, and he really had to ask for leave later.

But the black cat paced back and forth, came to the wall, stretched out its paws and scratched vigorously.

"It can't be like this." Lu Yingjiu hurriedly hugged it away.

However, there were already several claw marks on the wall.

"Meow--" the black cat called, still trying to stretch its claws towards the wall.

Lu Yingjiu said, "How can you cause damage? You've only been here for 10 minutes, and you scratched my wall."

"Meow." The black cat bit his tiger's mouth.

It didn't work hard, but it still left a shallow tooth mark.

"Why are you still biting?" Lu Yingjiu frowned slightly, "You are also a little ancestor."

However, the black cat took another bite and showed its claws towards the white wall.

As if hinting something.

This time, Lu Yingjiu followed its gaze.

A piece of light shines on the wall.

It seems... there are so many cracks?

The crack is thinner than a spider's silk, if you don't stare hard, you can't see it.

After Lu Yingjiu noticed the crack, the black cat jumped out of its embrace and clawed at the wall.

This time Yingjiu suddenly understood: "Are you asking me to open the wall by myself?"

"Meow—" the black cat raised its tail.

Lu Yingjiu: "...Is there something behind the wall?"

The black cat didn't respond, just looked at him with scarlet eyes.

Lu Yingjiu has always trusted her intuition: there must be something wrong with this wall.

But this is in his home, what can there be in the walls?

He found tools, such as screwdrivers, electric drills and hammers, and laid them out neatly.

After a lot of tossing, Lu Yingjiu knocked off a few pieces of the wall with a small hammer—they fell to pieces on the ground. The cow cat came over and smelled it curiously, then walked away.

When the last piece of wall peeled off, he leaned over to look.

There's no cement behind the crack, no brick, nothing.

Only one eye.