CH 26

“A-Rong, how were you doing these days?” Although the person on the other side was imposing, his tone was very kind. Even though he was getting older, his voice was still very loud, and it sounded like he had an open-minded and cheerful personality.

“I came back from Xijiang these days, why didn’t you contact me?” 

There was a bit of complaint in his words, as if the elders were reluctant to put a heavy tone with the juniors who admired them. They hoped that he would come on his own initiative, yet refused to say it directly, beating around the bush and trying to show a bit of intimacy.

Of course Wu Rong could recognize the voice, and he put down the half-torn ghost in his hand.

“Brother Bao.”

“Hey, you kid, your heart is wild after going out for a trip.” 

The opposite party laughed loudly and joked: “I said earlier that Liu Hu, that bastard is not worth anything. This kid eats so much rice for nothing. He’s tall but doesn’t have brains, he’s just a bastard. In the future, when you meet him, you don’t have to care for my face, just beat him up, let him have a long memory, and don’t give him way again and again.”

“Cheng’er’s live broadcast effect was quite good. Well, that kid met you as a lucky star. There is no rush to sign a contract with Ghost Video, you just let him get ready, and it will be safe.”

“Brother Bao.”

Wu Rong’s voice was light: “Chen Cheng and I plan to live broadcast on other platforms.”

“That’s a good relationship.” The other party didn’t mean to be angry at all, on the contrary, he was cheerful, very happy and relieved: “I knew Cheng’er had an idea a long time ago, so it’s good to go to other platforms. A good man has ambitions everywhere.”

“A poor family has a rich road, and money is always tight when you start a new business. In this way, I will give you 500,000, of which you will give Cheng’er 200,000, and keep the rest for yourself. Listen, I heard that you just regained a ghost recently, and bought some incense ash to make up for it. Good boy, the future is promising. Your Brother Bao has never seen anything before in his life.”

Beep.

The phone was cut off, and in a luxury villa on the outskirts of the city, a middle-aged man who looked somewhat similar to Liu Hu put down his phone. He was very big, around two meters long, but his figure did not appear bloated, but instead gave people a naive and harmless feeling. His temples were already gray, his earlobes were thick, and his eyebrows were thicker than ordinary people. Although there was a scar passing through his right eye and reaching his cheekbone, it didn’t look ferocious, and his eyes that were always smiling gave him a friendly vibe. 

But when he opened his eyes and suppressed his smile, those slender eyes shone with a cruel and cold light like a beast, and you could vaguely see the underside of his iceberg, which was completely opposite to kindness.

After staring at the hung up call for a while, Liu Bao put a smile on his face again, and walked slowly into the depths of the study with his hands behind his back. Turning the mechanism, the bookshelf moved away, and the secret door appeared. The narrow cement steps meandered down, and once you entered; you would be greeted with the unique smell of damp soil. The further you went down, the lower the temperature would be, and there would even be fine drops of water on the wall next to it, as if the stairs led directly to an ice storage.

At the end, there was another door. Compared with the simple walls of the surrounding stairs, this thick and brand-new safety door seemed out of place. It had excellent sound insulation, and there was no sound at all when standing on the steps. Only after opening the door could a man’s feeble screams be heard.

The eyes were full of dazzling scarlet, the smell of blood was disgusting, accompanied by the sound of beasts gnawing on the meat, the room behind the door was like Hell on Earth. As if he was used to it, Liu Bao walked to the pool of blood with a smile without even frowning. 

There was a man hanging in the middle of the room, his head was lowered, the muscles of his naked upper body spasmed due to pain, and he let out a weak moan. There was blood all over his body, his left shoulder seemed to be torn cruelly by a wild beast, and his flesh was bloody. Another man was close to him, he had long hair reaching his waist, and it was impossible to distinguish between men and women. He looked tender and affectionate, and when Liu Bao got closer, he could see the long-haired man’s head resting on the side of the man’s neck, sucking blood with relish, tearing the wound more from time to time.

The scarlet tongue licked the wound ambiguously and cruelly, revealing the white canine teeth. He bit off a piece of meat, chewed it up and spit it out in his hand, and handed the minced meat to the right arm of the hanging man like a mother beast feeding a baby. The black dog tattoo opened his mouth like a real vicious dog, biting the minced meat in his hand, and swallowed it whole without chewing. After the tattoo swallowed the flesh, the miserable wound on the left shoulder of the hanging man miraculously healed.

“They said that after you die, you will become a resentful ghost.”

The long haired man said with a smile and a soft voice. The thin white fingers like onion roots drew ambiguous circles on his bloody chest: “But your blood tastes just like other men’s.” 

There was a sense of grievance and coquettishness in his words, which made people unable to help but desire to protect and love: “What is special about you that can attract the attention of the special police, huh? Even I can’t see it. It’s just because of you that the injured cub has no flesh and blood to eat. How bad you are~”

As he said, the pointed nails slid from the man’s chest to the abdominal muscles, leaving a bloodstain, and finally returned to the heart, he nodded, thoughtfully: “Or, in the crisis of death, you will change.”

His voice seemed to have magic power, which provoked people. The hanged man was lifted by him, his eyes were dazed, his breath was short, his face was flushed, and he made a morbid offer as a tribute: “Kill me, kill me, I am willing to bestow myself to you…”

“Hu Xian.” 

Liu Bao, who had been silent and watching since he came in, finally spoke, and there was a kind of hardness that could not be refused in his gentleness: “Liu Hu will go to the headquarters to participate in special training tomorrow.”

“Tch, what a disappointment.”

The long-haired man got up lazily, showing coquettishness in every move, like a fox. Liu Hu, who was still being charmed, stared straight at his eyes, and the saliva flowed down the corner of his mouth. The chains that bound his hands were tightened. He was like a bull trying to show his strength, breathing heavily. The long-haired man only admired his own pointy fingers, saying carelessly:

“Old Liu, I don’t have that much free time. Your family’s offering is not the best food. I think Liu Hu is useless. His blood is not even as good as that of the little witness who went to the police station yesterday to hand in the video. A gecko still wants to survive with its tail broken. After all, I still have a relationship with your old Liu family. This is my last advice to you.” 

“Do it yourself.”

After he finished speaking, the man then lifted his long hair and left with a smile. The end of his voice faded into the air: “After so many years, it’s time for me to change homes. The blood of the little witness is really fragrant……”

Bang.

The security door opened and closed, Liu Bao looked at Liu Hu who was still staring at the man leaving the direction obsessively, wishing to catch up with him, his face finally became gloomy. 

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“I’m so pissed off, so pissed off!”

With a bang, he slapped the blue-and-white porcelain vase on the ground. Recalling his ugly appearance just now, Liu Hu gritted his teeth, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Wu Rong, Wu Rong! 

If it wasn’t for the Wu Rong kid’s bad deeds, how would he have ended up in such a humiliating situation.

Damn, really hateful!

” Big Brother, we can’t let that Wu Rong kid go. ”

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. When did Liu Hu suffer such a grievance! 

Like an enraged bull, Liu Hu rushed into the study angrily. Just entering the door, he saw the scene in front of him. He was angry and uncertain: “Big Brother, how did you take out the Five Ghosts Lucky Charm?!”

There was an old three-legged bronze round incense burner on the rosewood desk, with green smoke curling up. There were five small wine glasses lined up in front of the incense burner, but what was contained in the wine glasses was not wine, but rice.

Liu Bao’s huge body was squeezed into the armchair, his eyes narrowed slightly, and there was a seal character between the index finger and middle finger of his left hand in his mouth. It was a very rare purple seal character.

” Heaven and earth, heaven and earth, where are the five ghosts? The Grandfather oppresses the five ghosts, and the Grandfather invites the five ghosts to produce wealth.” 

A fierce look made the reckless Liu Hu stay silent and stand by the door. In the middle of Liu Bao’s incantation, the originally closed window was suddenly blown open by the strong wind and poured into the room. The sound of cheering came from the desktop, the solid wood desk was shaking, and the rice in the wine glass was jumping around. The strong wind made Liu Bao’s fingertip seal characters swish.

But what was strange is that the smoke on the incense burner was not affected by the strong wind, and it still went straight up, and suddenly cut off at the middle when it reached a height of one finger, as if it was swallowed by something.

The air in the room was extremely cloudy, and the temperature plummeted. Liu Hu, who had just come out of the bath, turned blue from the cold, but he dared not complain. When Liu Bao finished reading the last sentence: “Daily wealth, monthly wealth, annual wealth, five ways and five directions of wealth; wealth comes; no wealth goes; urgency is like law.” the purple talisman spontaneously ignited and turned into ashes, and he sprinkled it on the rice. After the strong wind dissipated and the temperature rose, Liu Hu finally had the courage to speak:

“Big Brother, who are you giving money to?” 

“Wu Rong.”

“What?!”

Being rational, he rushed up and leaned heavily on the table and yelled at Liu Bao: “Why! What did that kid do to us? Big Brother, how can you pay him back? You don’t care if he really kills me —”

Gada. 

The cold muzzle was pressed against his forehead, and Liu Hu’s words froze in his throat. He stared at the other party in disbelief, his Adam’s apple moved, and his whole body trembled. Under his furious gaze, Liu Bao’s eyes were calm, as if he wasn’t pointing a gun at the head of his own blood brother. The darkness hidden under the calm was even more chilling. Liu Hu was furious at first, and his teeth creaked. The two were in a stalemate for a while, and finally Liu Hu couldn’t hold on, and like a deflated ball, bowed his head.

“Big Brother.”

“Calm down.”

Liu Bao retracted his gun, his tone was calm, and he naturally directed Liu Hu to clean up the table as if nothing had happened. After neatly disposing of the ashes, censer and the rice grains in the wine glass, Liu Hu still couldn’t figure it out, and returned to Liu Bao full of dissatisfaction and doubts: “Big Brother, tell me why you gave Wu Rong money.” 

“Yes, he is your younger brother, but now both of us have become ghost keepers. If it were not for his bad deeds, we would have gone further! Big Brother, I remember that you are not good at it either, how can you treat only him so well!”

“A-Hu.”

Liu Bao’s expression was unpredictable, and he said slowly for a while: “Sometimes I really wish that A-Rong was my younger brother.”

“At least he’s not an idiot.” 

“Big Brother!”

“A person like A-Rong will be successful sooner or later. What you see is his present, what I invest is his future. ”

“What can that poor boy do!”

Liu Hu was not convinced, his fists clenched: “He only raised a disabled ghost. I could swallow it in one bite!” 

“When I first met him four years ago, he was just a thin and lonely child who was judged to be an ordinary person all his life.”

Liu Bao spoke leisurely, rubbing the ring on his index finger: “He came up and wanted to follow me. Others said that this kid was as thin as a dog, but I thought his eyes were fierce like a wolf, and the burning look in his eyes was hard for me to ignore. I even thought he looked like a bloodthirsty ghost, who can drag anyone into hell without mercy.”

“I told him, whichever position you see next to me, challenge yourself. If you win, stay here, if you lose, get out.”

“Then he picked A-Wen, defeated him so fast that I didn’t even think about it, so A-Rong stayed. A-Wen used to be the best at fighting, but A-Rong was better than him.” 

Liu Hu couldn’t help interjecting: “A-Wen raised a ghost at that time. If he was injured, he was no different from an ordinary person, and if he hadn’t lost his ghost halfway through, Wu Rong would’ve never won!”

“A-Wen is a ghost breeder.”

Liu Bao’s tone was light: “Even if the ghost he raised was seriously injured, he was still able to beat everyone in the gang at that time. However, he suffered from a backlash when A-Rong challenged him, and he lost to him alone. Why is that? ”

“A-Rong either has luck or secrets. Such a person is like a young dragon trapped in the shoal. He always flies to the sky. I gave him only a small profit, but he will repay hundreds of times in the future when he remembers my kindness.” 

“But now, it’s all ruined by you.”

Liu Bao looked at Liu Hu quietly, piercing his stern appearance: “The victim I originally chose was not Chen Cheng.”

” I…”

Liu Hu still wanted to hold his neck and talk hard, but in the end he was defeated by Liu Bao’s gaze, and finally said angrily: “… so what if I changed it.” 

It’s not because of Xun An.

He didn’t say that. The secret of Liu Hu raising ghost dogs is unknown to anyone except his elder brother. Although evil ghost dogs were fierce-level, they were the ghosts that are the easiest to attack. Anyone who can be a serious ghost breeder will not choose to raise evil ghost dogs. But that night Xun An went mad, pointing at him and saying that he will be bitten to death by a fierce-level dog ghost in the future, how could Liu Hu not panic.

Liu Hu panicked at the time and threw that boy Xun An out. When he regained his senses and quickly sent someone to look for him, he found that Xun An had already been arrested. Liu Bao went away for a meeting, all contact was cut off, and Liu Hu had no one to discuss with. The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, and the more he thought about it, the more panicked he was.

He remembered Xun An’s saying ‘Wu Rong’s dog’, and felt that he must have something to do with this kid, so he went to look for Wu Rong again. As a result, not only did Wu Rong leave by chance, but when he went to the Laoliang Shouyi Store to find someone, he saw several plainclothes policemen patrolling, which frightened Liu Hu into a panic. Under the pressure of many parties, he made the stupid move of replacing the victim with Yellow Hair, thereby threatening Wu Rong. 

“Big Brother, this is the end of the matter, it’s useless for you to appreciate Wu Rong any more.”

Liu Hu’s IQ finally returned, and he said firmly, “Anyway, Wu Rong has committed a serious crime now. You appreciate him so much, you should know If this kind of person grows up, he will end up being our enemy.”

“Tomorrow I will go to the special police headquarters for training, but you are still here. Huang Mao has always believed that the live broadcast was the task you sent. If he keeps blowing whispers to Wu Rong, do you think Wu Rong will believe you?”

It’s better to destroy it altogether, if follows a hesitant woman's soft nature, then he will become a stupid villain who delivers food to the protagonist in the novel. 

“There are people from the police station watching. It’s the time of the crisis. They choose to do it now, because they think the detention center is not long enough.”

Liu Bao was stable and peaceful, picking up the lukewarm tea, and taking a sip. Seeing him like this, Liu Hu had confidence in his heart, so he put on a smiling face and went to hit Liu Bao on the shoulder, and said in a low voice: “Big Brother, I’m stupid, you know, I can’t understand some things if you don’t say them clearly. All right.”

Liu Bao narrowed his eyes and slowly finished the cup of herbal tea before raising his right hand. He twisted his wrist deftly, turned his palm over, and a lavender talisman appeared on his fingertips again.

“Five ghost fortune talisman?!” 

Liu Hu was shocked: “Didn’t it just burn out!”

“The purple five ghost fortune talisman can be used three times as a medium. It consumes genuine money.”

“But, I burned one just now when I saw you.”

Liu Hu couldn’t figure it out, the maximum denomination of a piece of money was 100 yuan, if his elder brother specially used the five ghosts to transport 100 yuan to Wu Rong, would it be humiliation or revenge? 

“This is what I burned.”

Liu Bao opened the drawer and took out another banknote from it. It was light, soft and long, pink all over, with a portrait of the Jade Emperor printed on it, with the words ‘Tiandi Bank Co., Ltd.’ printed in the upper left corner, and the traditional ‘Wushiwan’ in the center.

“Joss paper?!”

“Five ghosts’ money transfer depends on whether it is good money or bad money.” 

Liu Bao said slowly and meaningfully: “A-Rong needs to be clear about what can and cannot be done. ”

“My tolerance is limited. If he is sensible, there will be no accidents. If he is not…”

“Hehe.”

Liu Hu was joyful all the way back to his home, when he came to the door, he slapped his head and cursed. 

“There are so many things to say yet big brother just wants to give Wu Rong a chance!”

He slammed the door, furious, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt wrong: “He doesn’t know how to behave, yet big brother just doesn’t want to kill him directly!”

Liu He was so angry that he didn’t dare to rush back to argue with Liu Bao. He was circling in the yard like a fighting cock, and when he slipped into the kennel, he saw the little milk dog soul, who had come back at some time and was sleeping soundly. He was so angry that he kicked him with force.

“Useless dog, you were not here when I needed you, but now you’re running back!” 

“Wow, woof —grr!”

The milk dog who woke up from the dream screamed in panic, thinking it was in danger, and suddenly turned into a giant vicious dog spirit, biting Liu Hu’s head. Although as the owner of the vicious dog, Liu Hu would not be really hurt, but the stench from the vicious dog’s throat made him almost pass out, his eyes turned green when he saw the sun again, and he was nauseated and retched for a long time.

When he went back to train the vicious dog again, it was already lying sick in the kennel with its eyes closed and weak. The kennel built for puppies was stuffed with such a behemoth, which made the dog look weak and pitiful.

“Trash, trash, bastard!” 

Liu Hu was so angry that one Budha was born, two Budhas ascended to heaven but he didn’t dare to kick any more. The vicious dog in front of him was closely related to the dog pattern on his arm. He was afraid that something might happen, so he cursed for a long time, and finally went to buy a bunch of expensive and precious tonics such as blood ginseng, ganoderma lingzhi, ghost beads and blood essence, and poured them into the dog food bowl.

“Eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, drink. I offer food for you yet you just know how to eat and don’t work hard. You idiot! Wait, I will enter the special training tomorrow, and if you find something like that it will integrate you completely. Look at how arrogant you are! ”

Liu Hu rushed away angrily. Not long after he left, the evil dog soul quietly opened his eyes. It swept away its weakness just now, stood up energetically, pawed and pulled the dog food bowl with its big paws, picked and picked for a long time. It finally chose the blood ginseng with the most and longest roots and the plump and juicy Ganoderma lucidum, and happily went out with the things in its mouth, and walked to Wu Rong’s house.

It was late at night, and Wu Rong hadn’t slept yet. Ever since he got the Zhong Gu, even if he didn’t sleep for seven days and seven nights, he wouldn’t lose his energy. The light in the living room was on, the little green snake was coiled on Wu Rong’s left shoulder, the little spider was lying on Wu Rong’s lap, and a few pairs of beady eyes were happily staring at the spoils in Wu Rong’s hands. 

The two ghosts from Miao didn’t seem to be many in number, but they brought back a lot of things, and they basically scooped up most of the most precious things in the corpse pit.

One of them was the honeycomb nest, and there were enough blood beetles in it to support the little spider to shed three layers of skin. But what Wu Rong valued the most was the crystallization of ghost energy brought by another ghost.

Just like the legendary 100-year-old crystallized millennium marrow, the crystallized chalcedony was a rare treasure that could only be born when the energy was purified to an extremely high level. The gray and white crystal in Wu Rong’s hand, as round and smooth as jade, was only half the size of a fingernail, but as soon as it was taken out, the room felt as if the air conditioner turned on to the lowest level, and the temperature dropped immediately.

Not only did the little green snake and the little spider show expressions of enjoyment, but even Wu Rong had the urge to swallow it in one gulp. In fact, the ghost qi spread, making Bai Ying, who had been hiding outside the villa for many days, unable to stop swallowing. 

Born of the resentment of heaven and earth, the kitten loved to eat things with pure energy, especially the green spirit Gu cultivated by Grandma Wu, which was its most coveted food. That’s why the kitten would not hesitate to abandon the cat ghost’s subordinates, tracked him all the way for thousands of miles, and finally came to Wu Rong’s side. It’s just that the aura on Wu Rong’s body was too strange, and the evil spirit’s sensitive intuition made it hesitate to move forward, not daring to force it.

People loved cats the most.

From the corpse of the kitten when it first lodged in, the nascent evil got this knowledge. This was a lost kitten. It was a good-looking Persian cat, and it had also enjoyed a lot of love and affection. The owner loved it very much, and took it with him wherever he went, but when he was traveling in Miaojiang, the supernatural ghost recovery came. The owner died, and the kitten didn’t live for too long.

The kitten thought that humans were the best creatures in the world, and it can eat everything it wants. 

It doesn’t need to eat everything, it only needs to eat the green spirit Gu to be satisfied. The kitten was calculating shrewdly, patiently ambush outside the villa. It was ignorant yet cunning, just waiting to find an opportunity to let Wu Rong raise and keep him in a logical way.

But it had been two days now, and the kitten had been hungry for two full days. Since it was born, it had been enshrined by cat ghosts, and later fed by Ge Lang. Where had this kitten suffered such hardship. It could bear it at first, but now, smelling the smell of ghost qi in the house, the kitten couldn’t stop drooling, and couldn’t help himself anymore, wishing that he could rush in and eat it right now.

Hungry, very hungry, but if you rush out now, that indifferent human will not necessarily feed him.

The kitten hesitated, he was so hungry that he felt wronged, meowed and rolled back and forth on the ground. Just when it was about to rush in, a puff of black smoke drifted closer and closer, accompanied by faint sounds. 

“Five ghosts will bring wealth, wealth will come to fortune…”

Phew!

The cat’s sharp claws were unsheathed, and his eyes were cold.