One day in early July, the streets were filled with scorching heat.
Speaking of the climate conditions in S city, they are really not that good. It is basically hot in summer and cold in winter. During the hot summer days, the asphalt roads are so hot that you can even fry poached eggs. No.
Way, these days, the amount of carbon emitted by big cities...
At noon, a ragged man came to No. 13 Dongfang Road. He turned into a side alley, walked up the fire stairs to the second floor, and then took out a bunch of keys from the pocket of his badly worn jeans.
The door opened, and there was a foreigner sitting in the room, who was watching TV boredly. When he saw the person coming in, he didn't bother to move at all, but asked in a very casual tone: "Are you back?"
Wang Xu closed the door, picked up something on the table that was three-quarters like a towel but half a rag and wiped his face: "It's so scary...that hide-and-seek monster..."
Elbert said: "The poster demon I dealt with was really powerful."
Wang Xu said dissatisfied: "Oh shit! Awesome? How come you came back earlier than me?"
Albert smiled bitterly: "I only arrived ten minutes earlier than you..."
At this time, the sound of parking came from outside. Ten seconds later, the door opened again, and Mr. Cat came in. He was in high spirits and didn't break out at all: "Hey! Boys, this morning's battle is over.
?”
Wang Xu squatted in front of the refrigerator and rummaged for a cold drink: "Don't worry, my fight with you in my life will never stop..."
Mr. Cat smiled: "I just came over to take a look. It seems that you are doing a good job, so I'm relieved." He said as if he was about to go out.
"Let's leave now? I mean, who runs this office?" Wang Xu said unhappily.
Mr. Cat said: "At this stage, I already have another job. Although July and August are holidays, I am quite busy in life, so... from now on, you two will be in charge of this place.
"
Albert interjected: "Mr. Cat, since we are talking about management, I have to mention that our firm has already experienced a serious financial deficit!"
Wang Xu put it more directly: "Well... to put it simply, we are both so poor that we can't open the pot anymore."
They are indeed not lying. Although the main business of Mao Ye's paranormal detective agency is catching ghosts, its real source of income comes from accepting some ordinary commissions.
We have mentioned before that when Mr. Mao was working alone, the most profitable business here was to find evidence of cheating on rich men and women. Audio recordings, photos, and even videos. Mr. Mao could get them all, and his methods were not
It can be described as brilliant or professional...that is simply divine...
But when he and Wang Xu went to Chengdu, the place was basically dominated by Elbert. This handsome German guy, leaving aside the technical issues, just his image as a foreigner... wanted to do it
The activity of following and secretly photographing was a bit too conspicuous, which directly led to Mao Ye losing a lot of customers.
Furthermore, there are indeed not many people who can hire private detectives these days. Wang Xu and Elbert have accepted a firm from Master Mao that has no real profit and can only earn some ghost money.
"The regent asked Uncle Wu to send those ghost coins as a reward, and there were fringe people who spent money here to buy some information a few times before. Although it feels like we have money in our pockets... we can't use this paper money to go out.
Flowers?" Wang Xu asked.
Mr. Cat thought for a while: "Well... it makes sense, let's do this..." He took a piece of paper and pen on the table and started drawing, completing a scribbled map in just ten seconds. "
Just go to the 'Scare Box' and change some cash."
Wang Xu and Albert both had incomprehensible expressions and asked in unison: "Where are you going?"
"The Scary Box is a place name. You walk three streets south, find a sewer opening, and then go in. Well... don't forget to cover the manhole cover... Then follow the instructions in this picture of mine and walk for fifteen minutes. It should be
You can find it. There is the underground trading center in S City. There are fringe people, ghost hunters, monsters, ghosts, whatever, and you can exchange all kinds of materials you want there. Of course, like
If you are in such a hurry to change money, you must give some profits to others." Master Mao explained.
Wang Xu was shocked at the time: "What? A bunch of monsters and ghosts gathered in the sewers, and you, the city leader, knew about it and didn't care? Are you planning to promote economic prosperity?"
Master Mao said disdainfully: "Almost every big city has a market like this, each with its own name. There are also such markets in several neutral cities in the Yin and Yang world. The basic rules for entering are to hide spiritual consciousness and ensure neutrality.
You can fight or cause trouble. Any personal grudges will be settled outside. By the way, you must strictly abide by what I said above, otherwise..."
Elbert's expression became a little nervous: "Otherwise..."
"If you break the rules there, the boss of that market will punish you... I won't tell you the specific situation, so as not to scare you. Anyway, remember, although this 'scare box' is under S City, it does not belong to
As the person in charge of this city, I am within the jurisdiction of the city. If you cause trouble, you will have no choice but to ask for your own blessings." Mr. Cat replied: "Well... I have been talking to you for a long time without knowing it. I am just shopping for things to go home.
I came here on the way, I have to go, goodbye."
After that, Mr. Cat closed the door and left. You could still hear him running down the stairs quickly and starting the car. Elbert shrugged: "Do you need to be in such a hurry?"
Wang Xu said: "Let me think about it...if he goes back too late, his wife might use a frying pan to hit him into the wall, and he won't be able to dig it out..."
Elbert wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Hey... I really don't understand, since a married man's life is like a nightmare, why does he still get married?"
Wang Xu tore off the tattered clothes on his body, pulled out a relatively clean T-shirt from somewhere and put it on, "I didn't quite understand it before, but recently..." He looked forward, thoughtfully:
"Forget it, you will understand when you meet a good woman one day."
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the two of them went out to eat two bowls of the cheapest beef ramen, and then walked three streets south as Master Mao said.
Albert found a manhole cover at random, inserted two fingers into the gap, and lifted the manhole cover without any effort. Wang Xu glanced at him: "I've been getting stronger lately."
Elbert replied to him in Chinese: "It's a small trick."
Unexpectedly, Wang Xu immediately answered: "If it doesn't work out, let's just start stealing manhole covers from now on..."
"Hey...this is illegal..."
"Brother El, we are superheroes, don't worry about those little things."
Elbert's ability to complain was obviously not on the same level as Wang Xu's, so he finally chose to shut up...
The two walked through the sewer according to the map given by Master Mao. Although this place was dirty and smelly, and there were some disgusting objects floating on the water that you would only see in nightmares from time to time, but fortunately Wang Xu could stop breathing.
The curse and the water-dividing curse, for him who couldn't swim, these two tricks were the first ones he learned among the seventy-two skills in the chapter on subduing demons. Albert could be considered to have benefited from Wang Xu, otherwise
By the time he arrived at his destination, the stench on his body might have made him ashamed to speak to anyone.
Perhaps because they were not familiar with the route, they took twists and turns in the sewer for half an hour before reaching their destination. Then, what came into Wang Xu and Elbert's sight was a very strange scene.
At the intersection of many circular pipes less than one person high, a slightly upward-sloping arch-shaped pipe appeared. Looking inside, it was a small room that was not too big, and there were actually four elevators in the room.
The doors of these four elevators are also in different colors, namely green, yellow, red and black.
Wang Xu and Elbert looked at each other and walked into the room one after another. Then, they noticed that there was a female ghost in white waiting for the elevator like them. The reason why they were sure that she was not a human was very simple.
This person's face has everything but no skin...
Muscles, bones, eyeballs, gums, everything can be clearly seen, and judging from the current time period, she must be a character who can come out during the day and has no geographical restrictions and can walk around.
Awesome ghost.
"What are you looking at?" she asked Wang Xu and Elbert fiercely.
Albert really didn't know how to answer, but Wang Xu acted quite calmly: "This eldest sister..."
"Who is your eldest sister? I'm only eighteen!" she yelled in her standard aunt voice.
"Well...this lady..." Wang Xu said again.
"What lady! Who is the lady? You stinky scoundrel! Take advantage of me?!"
"Then...this girl." Wang Xu paused here. Seeing that she didn't seem to have an attack this time, he continued: "Excuse me, are you going into that scare box?"
"What?" She looked at the two of them with her round eyes: "Is this your first time here?"
Wang Xu was a swindler at that time, and he knew very well that in this situation, he could only say a few words to others. If he told the truth, he would most likely be deceived, so he responded very naturally.
He said: "No, no... of course not, we just haven't been here for a while and wanted to ask about the current market situation. I wonder what this girl is going to buy?"
"Why should I tell you?" She said angrily, but then she spoke again: "Tch... Actually, it's okay to tell you. I heard that a kappa smuggled a batch of high-end oil paints from Japan. This girl is preparing
Go get some and try them."
Wang Xu thought to himself: Why don’t you try it on your face? Even if it is covered with shit, it will still look better than it does now...
But he said: "Oh... this girl is naturally beautiful. I think she will become even more graceful after using it..."
After hearing this, Elbert's goosebumps fell all over his body.
"Huh... You don't have to say that." The aunt actually accepted Wang Xu's compliment very calmly.
Even Wang Xu felt a little creepy at this moment: "Actually, I am also quite interested in that batch of imported goods. I wonder if I can go with the girl to see them together?"
"You have legs on your body, how can I stop you?" The attitude of the female ghost in white was still lukewarm.
At this time, the green elevator door opened, and a guy wearing a pumpkin head walked out, followed by a white sheet floating in the air.
"It's so hot here."
"Isn't it? My head is almost cooked. It smells like pumpkin pie!"
Looking at the backs of these two people, Wang Xu and Elbert were shocked again...
They followed the female ghost in white into the green elevator. The person in charge of driving the elevator was a very short fat man in a suit and leather shoes, with a pointed nose on his face and a shrewd light in his eyes.
Wang Xu searched for a long time and found that there was only one button in the elevator, and it was not in a place where ordinary people could press it. The button was located very close to the ground and was shaped like a foot. To be precise, it looked like a duck's flippers.
The short fat man stretched out his foot and kicked the button, which was just right...
Elbert whispered to Wang Xu quietly: "Could this be the legendary Penguin..."
Wang Xu laughed dryly: "Don't worry about this for now, have you noticed? As soon as we entered the elevator, he didn't even ask us where we were going, he just kicked the button. It seems... this is actually a direct elevator, right? So if this
The first part leads to the so-called 'scare box', and the other three... where do they go?"
