Chapter 4

     After the system releases the task, if Shi Xi does not execute it, it will be considered a mission failure.

     One month without taste is much more cruel than being bald.

     This task sounds more complicated than the previous one. Shi Xi has to ask clearly before taking action.

     Shi Xi looked at Zhang Qingyu: “Now we are partners, can you tell me about your experience?”

     Zhang Qingyu swallowed the osmanthus cake in his mouth and lowered his eyes: “Three years ago, a male donor came to the Taoist temple. He said that he was cursed by someone and was chased by evil spirits. He wanted to ask the master to save his life. As long as the master can save him, he will donate a large sum of money to help us repair the temple.”

     Shi Xi nodded: “What about after that?”

     “Unfortunately, the master is in retreat, and the eldest brother can’t leave to guard the gate, so I will do it myself. I agreed to it and went down the mountain with the donor to find a way to break the curse. “

     Zhang Qingyu raised his head, his dark green eyes darkened: “I didn’t expect him to be a liar, setting up a trap to lure me into a formation and transfer the death curse to me. In order to prevent me from revenge, he set up a formation to imprison my soul in the place of death.”

     “Snap——” Zhang Qingyu broke the chopsticks in his hand, and the runes on his body were running rapidly. He released a thick dark green resentment, his face was bulging with blue veins, and his handsome face became hideous and distorted.

     The resentment came to his face, and Shi Xi quickly avoided it: “System, what’s wrong with the little Taoist!”

 

   【Thinking of the painful memories of his life, he went crazy. 】

 

     Shi Xi: “Why is the target of this mission so dangerous? He looks weak, but I didn’t expect him to be more ferocious than Lin Ying!”

     Lin Ying didn’t know when she retreated behind Shi Xi. She said apologetically: “I’m very weak. I can’t even fight.”

     Shi Xi took a deep breath: “System, what should I do now?”

 

   【Calm him down, otherwise he will attack people and ghosts indiscriminately! 】

 

     “Calm down, calm down…” Shi Xi bit her lower lip and assured the little Taoist priest: “Zhang Qingyu, I will go to save your soul now, you calm down first!”

     Zhang Qingyu couldn’t listen to her words at all. His mouth opened to an incredible degree. His two canine teeth became sharp and terrible. The hair rope on his head couldn’t bear the Yin Qi and broke. His black hair fell on his shoulders and fluttered with the ups and downs of the resentment.

     When she saw this black hair, the little fear in Shi Xi’s heart disappeared, and was replaced by sourness. Even the little Taoist priest had a head of thick black hair. Shi Xi felt sour for a while, and when she saw Zhang Qingyu’s mouth open, she suddenly had an idea: “I know how to comfort him.”

     Shi Xi asked Lin Ying for a piece of osmanthus cake and threw it into Zhang Qingyu’s mouth: “Eat first, Zhang Qingyu.”

     Zhang Qingyu was choked by the osmanthus cake, and the resentment on his body suddenly dissipated. His flying long hair hung behind him, making him look like a pretty girl. He chewed the osmanthus cake in his mouth in a daze, and shed two lines of tears uncontrollably: “It’s so good…”

 

     System: 【……Host, is there a possibility that you are actually a genius in exorcising ghosts?. 】

 

     This immediately caught Zhang Qingyu’s pain point. He was a foodie, and he wouldn’t go crazy if he was given something to eat. A bite of the sweet sweet osmanthus cake would calm him down no matter how painful it was.

     Shi Xi handed Zhang Qingyu a bowl of tea: “Little Taoist priest, I’m here to help you, you can’t go crazy in front of me.”

     Zhang Qingyu lowered his head in shame: “I’m sorry, I lose control easily when I think of my past life. Fortunately, I didn’t hurt you, Otherwise, this poor Daoist would be guilty of a great sin.”

     “Stop! Don’t think too much about it.” Seeing that the runes on his body showed signs of turning again, Shi Xi hurriedly called a halt and placed all the fruit cakes in front of him: “I’ll ask you questions, you answer while eating, pay attention to controlling your emotions.”

     Zhang Qingyu stuffed a bite of egg yolk pastry into his mouth: “Okay, please ask.”

     “Where is the magic circle that imprisoned your soul? Is it in this teahouse?” Logically speaking, his soul was imprisoned in a fixed area and should not float far.

     Zhang Qingyu said, “In the abandoned land temple one kilometer away.”

     Shi Xi’s eyes widened: “How did you run so far?”

     “I was idle after my death, so I started to train my soul, and slowly I was able to resist the power of the magic circle and move around nearby.”

     “One kilometer is also called nearby?” Shi Xi touched the little bald head: “So you are wandering around this teahouse, it can’t be because…”

     Zhang Qingyu squinted his eyes comfortably: “Because within one kilometer, the smell of this teahouse smells the most delicious.”

     “As expected of you.” After Shi Xi relaxed, she felt hungry belatedly and picked up a piece of salt-baked chicken, while eating, she asked: “What do we need to do to break the magic circle?”

     Zhang Qingyu pursed his lips, his eyebrows and eyes were covered with a shadow: “The murderer buried my body and a magic weapon in the yard. To break the magic circle, we need to dig out the body and the magic weapon.”

     Shi Xi: “It sounds easy.”

     Zhang Qingyu: “In recent years, some lonely ghosts have lived in the temple. The donor is not an ordinary person, so you should not be afraid, right?”

     “How many are there?”

     “I haven’t counted them carefully, about a dozen.”

     “…”

     Shi Xi: “Then I will directly seek help from professionals.” First of all, I am definitely not afraid.

     “What professionals?”

     “Some people who can suppress lonely ghosts.”

     Zhang Qingyu suddenly realized: “Taoist! I remember my senior brother’s phone number, the donor can…”

     Shi Xi shook her index finger: “I will call the police.”

     Zhang Qingyu: “…”

     After leaving the teahouse, Zhang Qingyu took Shi Xi to the abandoned land temple. This land temple is hidden in a desolate pedestrian street. The entrance is very narrow and blocked by several lush banyan trees. It is not very conspicuous.

     Shi Xi took a look inside. The dilapidated and ancient temple was hidden in the shadow of the huge building, and it was eerie.

     After calling the police, Shi Xi saw an uncle selling candied haws. She bought two and stood at the entrance to eat while waiting.

     Shi Xi was chewing candied haws when she suddenly heard someone crying.

     “Selling candied haws – sour and sweet candied haws -” The only sound on the whole street was the uncle’s voice selling candied haws. She pricked up her ears and listened for a while, and the crying seemed to disappear.

     Shi Xi looked at Zhang Qingyu in confusion: “Little Taoist priest, did you hear someone crying just now?”

     Zhang Qingyu looked at the candied haws in her hand eagerly and swallowed: “I heard someone selling candied haws.”

     “Wuwuwu, I don’t want to… do ghost hunting live broadcasts anymore…” Shi Xi heard the cry again.

     This time she heard it clearly. The cry came from the land temple, and the voice was very familiar.

     Shi Xi thought about it, and a face appeared in her mind: “Oh my god, this seems to be the voice of the ghost hunting anchor!”

     Shi Xi looked at the land temple again. It was already dark now. She saw a fluorescent light in the temple, and there were some green phosphorescent lights floating around nearby.

     That fluorescent light couldn’t be the anchor’s live broadcast equipment, there were more than a dozen lonely ghosts in the temple!

     Shi Xi opened the live broadcast software and saw that the anchor Jiaming’s ghost hunting live broadcast room was listed on the popular recommendation on the homepage, with the title “Abandoned Temple Ghost Hunting”.

     Shi Xi clicked into the live broadcast, and Jiaming’s crying face appeared on the screen. There were several green phosphorous flames floating nearby, and the picture looked very hellish.

     Jiaming wiped the tears from his face with the back of his hand and said in a nasal voice: “This is an abandoned land temple. Since the incense has become less and less, the land god has moved away. Later, more than a dozen homeless ghost residents moved in one after another…”

 

   【Are these phosphorous flames special effects or props? This anchor’s live broadcast equipment is very professional, and his acting skills are not bad. He cries when he says he will cry. The story is also well written. Can the data be more accurate? 】

   【Is there a possibility that this is real phosphorous flame? 】

   【Where is the corpse digger Xiao Shi? Why didn’t she come? I watched this live broadcast just to see her. 】

  【 I have a question, who is holding the live broadcast equipment, Xiao Shi doesn’t seem to be that high. 】

   【Anchor, why are you crying on the live broadcast? 】

 

     “I’m a professional anchor. Normally, I won’t cry. I didn’t cry when I was live-streaming a corpse last time, but I was surrounded this time… These are real phosphorescent lights. There are no props or scripts. The guy who helped me get my phone was a 1.9-meter-tall, muscular man with eight abdominal muscles.”

 

   【Look at the abdominal muscles. 】

   【Look at the abdominal muscles. 】

 

     Jia Ming: “…”

     Shi Xi touched her little bald head: “This anchor is really good at choosing a live broadcast address. He wins every time.”

     And he didn’t see any ghosts last time, but this time he even knew how many abdominal muscles the ghost holding the equipment had. This is not a good trend.

     Zhang Qingyu said: “His situation is very dangerous. These ghosts will not kill him directly, but if the live broadcast continues, they may find it fun and haunt him. These ghosts are different from me. They come and go freely. If the live broadcast refuses them, they will haunt him until he agrees. If he agrees, he will never get rid of them in this life.” 

     At this time, Shi Xi heard Jiaming say: “You want to stay in the live broadcast room? No, no…”

     She looked at the live broadcast room, and Jiaming’s face became extremely ugly. He seemed to be strangled by something and was about to roll his eyes.

     “You really predicted it!” Shi Xi frowned: “We have to think of a way to save him. In this case, calling the police to catch them is useless.”

     Zhang Qingyu said: “We can’t deal with so many lonely ghosts, the donor should ask my senior brother to go down the mountain.”

     “By the time your senior brother goes down the mountain, he will be dead.”

     “What should we do then?” Zhang Qingyu said: “My rampage mode can suppress them, but it may also hurt you.”

     Shi Xi: “Eat a candied haws to calm down first.”

     As Shi Xi was eating, another flash of inspiration came to her: “I have an idea!”

     A few minutes later, Shi Xi carried the candied haws stick she bought from the uncle and entered the land temple.

     She pushed open the fragile wooden door of the land temple, and the scene in front of her was even more evil than the live broadcast room. The strong man holding the live broadcast equipment looked at her with a bloody face.

     A long-haired evil ghost was lying behind Jiaming. Upon closer inspection, his neck was tightly strangled by a scarlet long tongue, and a pair of pale hands were groping on his body, leaving black marks.

     Shi Xi slammed the candied haws stick on the ground and shouted, “Let go of that anchor!”

     The sturdy ghost grinned, revealing a mouthful of sharp fangs: “Another living person has come. It’s really lively tonight. Little wizard, we are live streaming. Come and say hi to the fans.”

     The sturdy ghost pointed the camera at Shi Xi, and the audience in the live streaming room was boiling.

 

   【This little bald head is so beautiful! I fell in love instantly! 】

   【Damn, brother Ming, this little bald head is Xiaoshi! How come she is bald after not seeing her for such a short time?】 

   【The anchor said it was not a script. Is it a coincidence that Xiaoshi appeared here? 】

   【Why did Xiaoshi hold a candied haws stick and change her career to selling candied haws? 】

   【No, she is now playing a monk, and this candied haws stick is her Zen staff! She shaved her head for the live broadcast effect, Xiaoshi is so dedicated! 】

 

     Jiaming saw Shixi and struggled to speak: “Xiaoshi… why are you… bald…”

     Shixi: “Or I’d better leave.”

     “Don’t!”

     A female ghost with four eyes floated in front of Shixi, staring at her with four eyes at the same time: “Little monk, are you trying to meddle in other people’s business?”

     Shixi blinked her eyes, with an innocent face: “Don’t get me wrong, I’m here to treat everyone to candied haws.”

     She picked up the unfinished candied haws and shook it in front of the female ghost: “It’s real, fragrant and sweet, Humans and ghosts are honest. As long as you let the anchor go, these candied haws are all yours. “

     The female ghost sniffed hard and smelled a sweet smell. Saliva flowed from the corner of her mouth. She calmed down: “Even if you give it to us, there is a difference between humans and ghosts. We can’t eat it. Don’t try to deceive ghosts.”

     “Really?” Shi Xi took out the remaining incense from her bag: “Wait for me to light this incense and call your names one by one. Are you still worried about not being able to eat it?”

     In this situation, there is no need to be so particular. Lighting a stick of incense can call a group of lonely ghosts to eat.

    She licked a candied haws in front of the female ghost: “Sweet.”

     The female ghost swallowed her saliva and immediately grabbed Shi Xi’s wrist: “Give me the candied haws!”

     The other ghosts couldn’t help it. They let go of Jia Ming and surrounded Shi Xi.

     “I’m so hungry. I haven’t eaten in years.”

     “I’ve almost forgotten what sweet tastes like. I want to eat candied haws…”

     “I didn’t like this stuff when I was alive, but I’ve been hungry for more than ten years. I’m greedy.”

     The cold wind blew, and Shi Xi’s clothes fluttered in the wind. She smiled slightly, her eyebrows and eyes were compassionate, like a god who came to hell to save all living beings.

     Oh, there should be no gods in the world who carry candied haws to save people.

     “Don’t worry, you swear first, you can’t embarrass us again after eating my candied haws, otherwise you will be wiped out.”

     Well, there should be no gods in the world who threaten ghosts.

     These lonely ghosts can’t stand the temptation of candied haws, and have given up thinking. They are willing to swear anything.

     While they swore, Shi Xi pulled out the candied haws and inserted them into the big incense burner in the temple. When all the ghosts finished swearing, she also remembered their names.

     She lit a stick of incense, inserted it into the incense burner, and called out their names one by one: “Please sit in a row, ghosts whose names have been read above, and each ghost will take a string of candied haws.”

     The ghosts sat cross-legged under the incense burner and ate candied haws, crying loudly while eating. Zhang Qingyu and Lin Ying were also among them, eating the candied haws in their hands with satisfaction.

     Jia Ming was stunned when he saw this scene, and couldn’t help but give Shi Xi a thumbs up: “Xiao Shi, you can think of this method, awesome.”

     Money can make ghosts work, and if you don’t have money, you can have something to eat. This is the experience Shi Xi learned from Zhang Qingyu. A bite of osmanthus cake can calm down the violent Zhang Qingyu, and candied haws can certainly buy off lonely ghosts.

     Shi Xi took a string of candied haws and gave it to him: “Eat it, calm down, and remember to reimburse me for the candied haws.”

     Jia Ming: “Okay.”

 

   【I can’t see even half a ghost, they must be acting. 】

   【Wait, there seems to be a mark on Jiaming’s neck! Hiss, there are also palm prints on his arm! 】

   【he must have quietly put on makeup when the camera was turned just now. Xiaoshi’s clothes were blown up by the cold wind just now. There must be someone using a blower next to her. It’s all a routine. 】

   【I also think it’s fake. Bribing a ghost with a candied haws is successful. This is too outrageous. 】

 

     “The question is, Xiaoshi has also appeared. Who is holding the live broadcast equipment? Is it really a strong man with eight-pack abs?” The strong man ghost who was eating candied haws and holding the live broadcast equipment read the bullet screen in the live broadcast room with emotion and grinned: “I seem to be famous, everyone wants to see me, let them see me.”

     The strong man turned the camera to himself: “Hello everyone, I have been holding the live broadcast equipment.”

    A blurry bloody face flashed across the screen of the live broadcast room. Before the audience could see clearly, the l

ive broadcast room had a malfunction and turned into a black and white noise.

     Shi Xi tilted his head: “Jia Ming, you had a live broadcast accident.”

     Jia Ming shed two wide noodles of tears: “What’s a live broadcast accident? I almost had an accident myself.”