Liang De returned to the loft apartment in Hongye Building on Shanqian Street, and happened to bump into the old landlord lady at the door who came to return the pet. As Li Zhixian's distant cousin, he accepted the old lady's nagging for more than half an hour.
After ensuring that the salted fish and her pets would be well taken care of, the old lady left with satisfaction.
Liang Deti slipped into the bird cage and entered the door. The owl in the cage kept looking at the old lady who left reluctantly, not happy at all to see its owner again.
Li Zhixian sat on the sofa with his legs closed and watched the ten o'clock show, holding a can of Waterloo stout in his hand.
On TV, a man and a woman sat side by side on the rooftop and talked to each other. They drank almost half of the beer in their hands and didn't finish it. It was so ridiculous that they couldn't be mixed up in a hard-core foreign drama like Country Love Story.
main character.
Li Zhixian drinks an average of three sips per can, drinking and throwing them away.
Fortunately, Liang De had the foresight to build a small briquetting machine into the waste-picking robot, which could collect multiple cans and compress them into metal blocks the size of cigarette boxes. Otherwise, the house would be filthy again.
Li Zhixian was swinging her feet on the sofa, and the owl pattern on her socks seemed to be shaking her head. When she heard the footsteps, she turned to say hello to the owl in Liang Deti's hand.
"Hey, Lili."
The owl opened its beak in the cage and said:
"The time has come."
Surprised, this bird still has a smoky voice.
Li Zhixian said to Liang De: "Open the cage. It wants to eat and won't run away."
Liang De put the bird cage on the ground and opened it. The owl inside walked out of the cage door and gave him a look of fratricide, and walked to the kitchen.
Liang De watched the talking owl skillfully open the kitchen cabinet door, grab a bag of bird food and a bowl, and pour some food for himself. He was so sensible that it made people feel heartbroken.
He said to Li Zhixian:
"Is this an owl or a parrot you have?"
"It's a long-eared owl. My original guide animal was named Lili. He could talk nonsense over and over again. He couldn't compare with a parrot."
"You are quite willing to spend money on pets. The staple food and supplementary food are all imported."
Liang De glanced at the price tag on the bird food bag and thought, "Oh, this bird eats better than humans."
Li Zhixian held the empty beer can, squinted his eyes at the scavenger robot that didn't look very smart, and accurately threw it into the feeding port of the briquetting machine on the top of it.
"The guide beasts are raised by the bureau. They used to send money to my card, but later they changed to sending supplies directly. It's really inconvenient."
Liang De looked at the wine-soaked salted fish and felt that he already understood why the Evil Disaster Bureau had changed the situation to distribute supplies to her.
In other words, bird food cannot be eaten with wine, otherwise...
"Old Liang, take a look at how much grain is left in the cabinet. If there is more, I will sell a few bags online to buy wine."
The smoke-throated owl was shocked when he heard Li Zhixian's words. He immediately spread his wings to block the kitchen cabinet door, and made a deep sound from his beak:
"Evil is stirring!"
"Lili, you are so stingy! Can't you just eat less?"
Li Zhixian stepped off the sofa and approached the bird food in the kitchen cabinet step by step.
The owl Lili clung to the cabinet door, her eyes intertwined with despair and courage, and her beak made a helpless sound:
"A dark fate is about to come!"
Liang De gave Owl a look of reassurance and stood up to stop Li Zhixian.
"The balance of the payment has been collected. I'll go to the supermarket tomorrow to buy the remaining sacrifices. I'll buy you some discounted drinks by the way. Don't compete with the birds for food."
Li Zhixian fell backwards, put his hands on the floor and performed a neat backhandwheel and collapsed back on the sofa.
"We'll leave at nine o'clock tomorrow. I've set 30 alarm clocks on your phone from 8 o'clock to 8:30. That should be enough."
"Lao Liang, we have a flexible working system. It's only the first week now. There is a lot of time. Do you want to be so rigid?"
Li Zhixian opened her phone and was about to delete the alarm clock when Liang De's eerie voice sounded in her ears:
"Alopecia, gout, neck lines, athlete's foot, hemorrhoids, body odor, bad breath, uncle's odor, middle-aged fatness, crazy nose hair, lumbar disc herniation, oral ulcers, chronic gastritis..."
Li Zhixian felt cold all over after hearing this, and quickly added 30 more alarm clocks for herself on her phone. After adding the alarm clock, she saw that it was not early, so after washing, she went upstairs and lay down in the bedroom.
"See you tomorrow." The cheerful voice of the rigid social creature came from downstairs.
Li Zhixian pulled out the bedside table drawer filled with wine bottles and drank three 50 ml bottles of Cognac before falling asleep.
"Damn it, why is it more troublesome to be an employee of the evil god than to be a magical girl..."
…
At 9:10 in the morning, the fresh food section of the supermarket is full of old men and old ladies.
Liang De let Li Zhixian push the shopping cart, and he stood two meters away from the shopping cart, flipping through the recommendations for today's sacrifices in "Junzong Sacrifice".
The content in this parchment book is not static. The sacrifices used to worship Du Gongtai are different every day and must be determined according to the recommended catalog of sacrifices on that day.
What he ordered online were mainly materials for building the altar of the evil god and several fixed sacrifices. Other sacrifices had to be purchased temporarily.
"A box of hazelnut chocolates, which costs more than 110 grams. A can of seedless plums, which costs more than 150 grams. I also got a pack of original potato chips to share, two bags of fruit hard candies, matcha flavored and strawberry flavored poky.
Take three boxes.
Okay, let’s go to the fresh fruit section.”
"One pound of jackfruit, two pounds of lychees, four green coconuts...
Pork ribs are so expensive, why not replace them with mutton slices... Sister, are these black tiger shrimps wild? Why don't they look like them to me? Okay, okay, I'll buy some and go back and try them.
Master, catch a melon seed, just that one, yes, yes, the skinniest one. It swims so lively. It must be delicious and make you skin it.
Are there colorful cloud bream?
Oh, I saw it, grab that one, the fat one, yes."
After buying the fish, Liang De opened the shopping list on Baochou's tablet, compared it with the parchment, and said:
"We still need two bags of laundry beads and a box of conditioner. Let's go to the cosmetic area."
Li Zhixian looked at the fish jumping in the shopping cart, then at Liang De, and said:
"Lao Liang, are we buying sacrifices for the evil god, or are we shopping for his mother?
Are Mr. Lei Chunzongdu’s requirements for sacrifices so close to the people?
Don’t you need to kill a few people to warm up the new altar?”
Liang De put away the tablet and said: "The evil gods you understand are those weird fish monsters that the Evil Disaster Bureau usually deals with.
The four friends of Thunder are all Kaiyuan practitioners who are high-ranking Qing Jie. Seriously, they might be able to subvert the entire Kukai system. Do you think they have something that they can’t get, and they must ask you to give it to them?”
"Conditioner?" Li Zhixian guessed seriously.
Liang De shook his head: "These sacrifices are not for the evil god himself at all.
The Altar of the Evil God in Thunder Bluff has two main functions.
The first one is used for upper and lower communication, which is equivalent to the internal office phone number.
The second is to provide a trading platform among the followers of the evil god.
The things we bought today are the demands of other Evil God's followers. After you sacrifice these things, you will have 100 points in your account, and you will be automatically promoted to the junior user group, and then you can use the interior of the Evil God Altar normally.
Communication function, you can also use points to shop on the platform.”
"You can still shop... Then what did you mean yesterday when you said that I can get a 40% discount because I have the blood of God?"
"Suppose someone else sacrifices one sacrifice to get 1 point, and you only need to sacrifice 0.6 of the same sacrifice to get 1 point."
"Then can't I pay for the sacrifice?"
"Brother Xian, your ideas in this area are really broad and active..."
"Lao Liang, there is a leader in this project. At the beginning, small profits but quick turnover are needed to develop users. I only draw ten points. Who wouldn't be happy with this?
Introduce a few more of the Evil God's followers you know to me, and I will share the dividends with you on a per-person basis, giving you two points each!"
Li Zhixian waved his hand with great courage.
"But Brother Xian, have you ever thought about it, if you are an ordinary member of the evil god who does not have the privilege of making sacrifices, and then a blood of the evil god who has been serving the evil god for generations and has been appointed by the superiors to be unspeakably loyal comes to find you,
I asked you if you want to gather the evil god's wool together... What would you think?"
“This bastard must want to fish for law enforcement!
I have fallen for a colleague in the bureau before, and that year she rated her as an advanced worker!"
Li Zhixian, who has rich life experience, was thoughtful and thought seriously about how to solve this key trust issue.
Liang De looked at her helplessly and sighed. It was half past nine. He turned on the cross-border communication switch on his dedicated mobile phone and refreshed his mailbox to see if Bai Hekong had replied to his email.