Strange Tales: The Yin-Yang Celestial Master

At dusk, there was only a little setting sun left in the sky, and the afterglow filled the sky, dyeing the whole desolate land with a layer of scorched yellow.In the distance, the newly erected scaffolding reflected the setting sun, casting long shadows on the ground.

It was already the end of work time, and there was no one on the construction site, only two workers stayed on duty.They squatted outside the work shed and finished eating their lunch box. One of them clapped his hands and stood up, ready to finish the last bit of work before dark.

He pushed the full gravel truck and was about to walk towards the scaffolding over there, when a burst of children's laughter wafted into his ears. He was worried that some children had come to play on the construction site, and it would be bad if something happened , so he stopped and looked around, but did not see a single child.

Where did that laughter come from?

He blinked suspiciously, and continued to walk forward. At this moment, it seemed that something bumped into him, and then passed him, but he turned around and saw no one.This made him tense all of a sudden, holding the handlebars tightly with both hands, and carefully looking around - except for the worker who was fetching water by the shed, there was no one else nearby.

At this time, he heard a clear and tender child's voice in his ear - "Is it hidden? I'm going to start counting, 100, 99, 98..."

He shuddered suddenly, left the gravel truck and ran back, shouting the name of the worker while running: "Ah San! Ah San! Did you hear that?!"

Ah San who was called by him was squatting by the bucket to wash his face, when he heard him yelling in panic, he raised his head in a daze, "What did you hear?"

"The voice of a child!"

"What child's voice?"

"Hey!" He was anxious and frightened, and kept turning his head to look in the direction of the gravel truck that he had abandoned, "I tell you, this place is haunted!"

That Ah San curled her lips in disdain and said, "Liu Daniu, have you watched too many ghost movies? What the hell are you talking about, nonsense!"

"Really! I'm not lying to you!" Liu Daniu tried to clarify for himself, but Ah San still didn't believe it.

"Go, go, work quickly, it's getting dark. Have you heard the legend?"

"What legend?"

Ah San leaned over mysteriously, "If you go to the scaffolding at night, you will meet a child. As soon as he sees you, he starts screaming, screaming and shouting..."

"What are you shouting for?" Liu Daniu swallowed in fear.

"He would yell: 'Ah - why are you so ugly! You're so scary!' Hahahahahaha~" Ah San couldn't stop laughing after speaking, but Liu Daniu turned pale and froze on the spot. His hands were shaking a little.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? You won't be really scared?" Ah San pushed his shoulder, "I'm just kidding you."

Liu Daniu stared and turned his face slowly. The muscles on his face were twisted a little with tension, but Ah San was startled. Just as he was about to make a sound, he grabbed his sleeve. Liu Daniu said tremblingly: "You, you... did you hear, heard anything?"

"What?" Ah San frowned strangely, at this moment, he heard a voice, a child's voice, that voice was counting—

"68, 67, 66..." Each word was read carefully.

Ah San didn't even think about it, dragged Liu Daniu and ran into the shed, slammed the door shut, feeling uneasy, and moved the big square stool from the shed to the door.Liu Daniu was terrified, he huddled in a corner and asked in a low voice, "Will it... come on the count of 1, and come to kill us?"

Ah San's heart trembled when she heard this, but she didn't want to admit it, "It's just your crow's mouth! Don't guess!"

Liu Daniu stopped talking.The two huddled together and listened tremblingly to the immature child's voice: "35, 34..."

"It's coming soon..." Liu Daniu said in a panic.

Ah San covered his mouth.

After a while, the number has counted to "10", and soon it became a single digit. When it finished reading "1", the outside was quiet for a while, the two waited with bated breath, and the voice sounded again, This time it stopped counting, but said directly: "I'm coming to you!"

"Ah! What should I do!" Liu Daniu stood up abruptly and spun around in circles on the spot.

"Don't hide, I see you!" The voice came in clearly from outside the shed.

Liu Daniu looked at Ah San in a cold sweat, but Ah San didn't speak, grabbed a kitchen knife in his hand, and stared at the door, not daring to relax a bit.

Perhaps because there was no response, the voice asked with some disappointment: "Where are you hiding?"

Neither of them dared to answer.

Suddenly, another voice came out from behind them: "I'm here!" The voice seemed to be whispered behind their ears, and the hairs on their necks stood up all of a sudden.

"Ahhhhhh—" Ah San and Liu Daniu screamed together, without even daring to turn their heads, they moved the stools away and rushed out the door, desperately fleeing this weird construction site.Behind them, on the empty construction site, the laughter of children still echoed.

As soon as Qi Buyang returned to Qi's house, he received a call from Boss Chen. This time he didn't ask his secretary to entrust the message, but he called in person and named Qi Buyang from the beginning. His respectful attitude was completely different from before.

"Master Qi, I want to thank you! Last time you showed me the piece of land, because you said it was not good, I was hesitant to do it, but someone else took it, and it took a few days There was a problem with the construction." Boss Chen couldn't stop flattering: "You are really clever, and you are worthy of being the youngest head of the Qi family! I was worried when your grandfather just retired, but now it's all right, I can rest assured that you are here, It’s true that green out of blue is better than blue!”

Qi Buyang had goosebumps all over his body, and he didn't know how to go back, so he had to listen to those words patiently, and then went straight to the point: "Boss Chen, why are you looking for me this time?"

Boss Chen still didn't miss any chance to flatter him, "You figured this out? It really isn't easy!"

"..."

"It's like this. For me, there is a piece of land that has been idle before. Some time ago, I finally planned the development plan. Something happened just after the construction started."

Qi Buyang knew that the matter that asked him to come to the Qi family must have something to do with ghosts, "Is the matter serious?"

"It's not serious. No one died. It's just that the two workers said that the field was haunted by ghosts, and they didn't want to stay. Their trouble made people panic, and the other workers were also afraid of accidents. They insisted that I ask a mage to collect ghosts." , otherwise it won’t work.”

"Then I'll go there tomorrow, just give me the address."

"This..." Boss Chen wondered: "Little Master Qi, do you have time now? We are rushing to start work, and if we are late, we will be charged an extra day's wages, which is quite a lot!"

Qi Buyang looked at the time, it was afternoon, after thinking about it, he said: "Okay, I'll be there right away."

"Okay, okay, I'll wait for you at the construction site, please!" Boss Chen happily hung up the phone.

By the time Qi Buyang and Luo Lang went to the construction site, it was already late, the sun was just setting, and it was dusk again.The alternation of yin and yang between heaven and earth is the most unstable moment.

Sitting comfortably in the car with the air conditioner on, Boss Chen saw them get out of the car and greeted Qi Buyang enthusiastically. When he saw Luo Lang again, his expression became a little stiff, and finally he nodded to him coldly.

Luo Lang didn't take it seriously, but stared at his smooth head happily, and said triumphantly, "Look, I'm right, you're really bald."

"..."

Luo Lang still didn't let him go, "Why don't you say I'm clever?"

"..." Boss Chen gritted his teeth with a pale face and squeezed out every word. "Mr. Luo is really clever..."

"That's about the same." Luo Lang smiled with satisfaction.

Qi Buyang tried to stop him several times, but failed. He could only watch helplessly as Boss Chen was fuming with anger from Luo Lang again.Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, he quickly changed the topic: "Boss Chen, what's going on here?"

Only then did Boss Chen think about the business, and he stopped looking at Luo Lang, and only stared at Qi Buyang, and told him the experience of the two workers, and finally concluded angrily: "I think this matter is basically what they made up. Those who come out, want to leave and bring other workers to harm, if the little master sees that there is nothing wrong, the two of them don't want to get paid! Hmph!"

The Buddha was released to prove what the two workers said. As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of children's laughter around him. The voice was laughing and innocent, and it came from different directions after a while, but it was impossible to see who it was. The sound it makes is especially weird on an empty construction site.

Several people present all looked at each other at the same time, and saw that Boss Chen's complexion suddenly turned ugly, and he quietly moved a few steps towards Qi Buyang's direction, trying to hide his fat body behind the little celestial master, but it's a pity He didn't succeed, so he had to ask in frustration: "Master Qi, how is it? Is it... is there really a ghost?"

Qi Buyang didn't want to scare him, and he didn't nod. He just said, "Let us deal with it here. Boss Chen, go back first."

"Whether it's good or bad..." Boss Chen nodded hurriedly, got into the car quickly, explained a few words before slipping away.

As soon as he left, Qi Buyang said towards an invisible place: "Come out, I won't hurt you."

His answer was still a burst of laughter, but no one was there.

"It's hidden." Qi Buyang frowned, the other party didn't want to see him, so it would be difficult.

"Just find it out." Luo Lang put his hands on his shoulders with a smile, looking excited.

Qi Buyang thought about the situation those two workers encountered. Now that the other party is controlling the situation, they can only follow its rules.

"Looks like we have to play hide-and-seek." Qi Buyang scanned the surrounding construction site, then looked at Luo Lang, "Mr. Luo, let's find it."