Chapter 23: First Cooperation with the Fox 1

After getting out of the car in front of a towering office building, I clutched my hand and muttered softly, “It was just a joke. Did you have to do that?”

I massaged it all the way, and the teeth marks on my hand were still faintly visible. This guy was really ruthless.

Wen Ye narrowed his eyes dangerously and snorted coldly: “A joke? Le Xiaomai, if you make this kind of joke with me again, it will really be a bloody wound!”

I pouted in disagreement: “You don’t have a sense of humor at all. No wonder Miss doesn’t like you.”

I quickly covered my mouth, making a gesture of zipping my lips – less said, sooner mended. Le Xiaomai, get a grip.

Brother Yuan laughed all the way, saying that we were a pair of bickering treasures and that watching us quarrel was more fun than taking care of kids at home.

The one who hired the office this time was an online game company. The boss was surnamed Jiang. The new company had just moved to C City, and recently some employees had reported that they could always hear children laughing in the bathroom when they went to the toilet.

One female employee who had fainted from fright said that she saw a bobble-headed doll standing at the end of the hallway and smiling at her when she went to get water. It disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Moreover, children’s handprints and footprints always appeared on the windows, walls, and floors, and the employees’ desks were often messed up, and the snacks in the leisure area were inexplicably opened and scattered all over the place.

In the past week or so, many employees had taken leave, and some had even resigned voluntarily. So Boss Jiang asked someone to go to Xicheng to find Brother Yuan and his office.

Brother Yuan said it casually, but I couldn’t help but get goosebumps all over. Wasn’t this just a haunted house?

The game company had booked the entire seventh floor, nearly four or five hundred square meters, and the decoration was very similar to a competitive internet cafe, with a large leisure area and all kinds of cute figures everywhere.

It looked like it was at least a team of sixty or seventy people, but now there were only about a dozen people working in the entire company.

As soon as I arrived on the seventh floor, I felt a chill, like walking from the scorching sun into a shopping mall with central air conditioning in the middle of summer.

But it wasn’t the hottest time yet; the central air conditioning didn’t need to be set so low.

Seeing me rubbing my arms, Wen Ye sneered mockingly: “Le Xiaomai, didn’t you want to go to the cemetery and use the yin qi to neutralize the yang energy of your pure yang blood? You can absorb more here.”

Brother Yuan looked at me amusedly: “Xiaomai, we don’t go to cemeteries for fun. If evil enters your body, it will damage your seven souls.”

“I know,” I replied softly with my head down, but in my heart, I cursed the stinky fox for exposing my secrets in public.

Wen Ye said that he had yin qi on his body, but I didn’t have any discomfort after getting along with him and sharing a bed for a few days.

I couldn’t feel his yin qi. Anyway, it wasn’t this stimulating, bone-chilling cold.

Speaking of sharing a bed, I slept very unsteadily the first night because I was nervous and scared.

The next day, Wen Ye casually threw a few Taoist books at me, asking me to recite the Calming Heart Mantra and the Yellow Court Scripture, saying it was for morning and evening practice. I didn’t understand the meaning of them at all, but I just read blindly and clumsily.

Whether it was the hypnotic effect of the scriptures, or I had relaxed my vigilance, or Wen Ye’s essence was really helpful to me, I slept more and more soundly these past few nights.

So that when I woke up this morning, instead of the usual back-to-back, I opened my eyes and saw his translucent cheeks.

Although our bodies were ten centimeters apart, my fingertips had crossed the line unknowingly, gently touching his arm that was exposed from the quilt.

Breath brushed against my fingertips, slightly cool, and scalding hot.

In the touch of 0.01 square meters, a tiny spark suddenly appeared. When it met a thumping heartbeat, a chemical reaction quickly occurred.

Before my brain could react, boom, the spark met the spring breeze and spread like wildfire. Suddenly, flames spread from my fingertips to my arms, body, neck, cheeks, and even my hair was scalding hot.

The black and white Le Xiaomai in my mind had another fight. Finally, one side gave up resistance and defected, completely defeated.

“Xiaomai?” Brother Yuan waved his hand in front of my eyes. “What are you thinking about, zoning out for so long?”

I rubbed my face, covering up my fluster: “No, it’s nothing…”

While I was lost in thought, the three of us had been led to the reception area by a middle-aged man.

During this period, Brother Yuan and the man exchanged greetings. I heard him introduce himself as Fang, the legal representative and assistant to the boss of the company.

“Hehehe… Master Yuan even brought two kids out to train?”

Assistant Fang wore a short-sleeved shirt, tucked the hem of the shirt into his dress pants, and the belt around his waist made his beer belly very round, smiling with a ruddy face.

Brother Yuan lifted his chin towards Wen Ye, and said nonchalantly: “These two in my family aren’t ordinary kids. I’m counting on him to clean up the evil later.”

A trace of surprise flashed in Assistant Fang’s eyes, praising: “Truly, new waves drive out the old. This handsome young man looks dignified and capable. He must be very capable to make Master Yuan look at him differently.”

I secretly glanced at Wen Ye sitting on my left. He sat casually, frowning slightly, and said seriously: “Have everyone here leave.”

Assistant Fang was slightly stunned, and looked down at the expensive watch on his wrist: “How about this, let’s go eat first. Recently one of our games was released, and the engineers are rushing to release a new version. It will be a little difficult to clear the area. Let me see how to arrange the employees…”

Brother Yuan nodded: “That’s good. We all work at night. You arrange it first.”

As soon as he spoke, a boom sounded outside, like a balloon exploding. Assistant Fang shook his head helplessly: “Damn it, here it comes again!”

Following Assistant Fang out, I saw that in the originally clean leisure area, many dolls and figures had fallen to the ground, and there were several small gray handprints on them. A super large bag of potato chips had been squeezed and exploded, and potato chips were scattered everywhere.

The cleaning lady was holding a broom, and said in terror, “Assistant Fang, I’m not going to do it after today. This is too scary. It just got cleaned up and it’s like this. I, I, I… I really can’t do it.”

Assistant Fang waved his hand: “You clean it up first. We’ll talk about you staying or leaving tomorrow.”

The cleaning lady muttered in a low voice that she had never encountered such an evil thing, while cleaning. Brother Yuan chatted with her for a few words, asking about the situation.

I secretly glanced at the employees working at their desks. All of them were men. Some had yellow paper pasted in front of their desks, some had small peach wood swords hanging, and some had bagua mirrors hanging.

They were really earning money with their lives.

Seeing a programmer who was not equipped with any evil-repelling tools, wrapped in a blanket, shivering from the cold, I asked Brother Yuan: “Can I give away the talismans you gave me just now?”

“The market price is 3,000 yuan for each one. Are you willing to give them away?” Brother Yuan asked, amused.

I gaped: “What! So expensive!”

“That’s right. What you have in your hand are ordinary talismans bought in the ghost market. The talismans drawn by Brother Zhao, the big bosses who ask our office for help, they can’t even get them with a lot of money.”

Wen Ye proudly cut me off: “Want to borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha?” (*idiom meaning to use someone else’s things to gain favor)

I treasured the talisman in my bag and shook my head: “Too expensive, I can’t bear to give it away.”

The moment I looked down to buckle my bag, I saw a gray shadow squirming on the desk in the employee work area. I turned my head sharply, and it disappeared with a swoosh, leaving only the sinister hehe laughter lingering in the air.

Several employees shivered, complaining that the air conditioning was too low.

I grabbed Wen Ye’s arm nervously, my mouth stuttering: “I, I, I… I seem to have seen…”

“Shut up!” He glared at me. “I’ll talk about it later.”

“But, that little…” I mouthed the word ‘ghost’, and continued in terror, “It’s the one that Lin Miao raised, the one who wanted to harm me!”

Although I didn’t see the little ghost’s appearance just now, I could guarantee 100% that it was it based on the creepy laughter.

How did it come from Xicheng to C City!

And it was so bold to actually show its face now.

Wen Ye nodded: “I know, let’s ask clearly later tonight.”