Chapter 149 Straight to the point! Straight to the point!
The night is not deep, but very dark.
Accompanied by gusty wind.
A domineering off-road motorcycle was speeding on a deserted suburban road.
Due to its age and disrepair, this road in the suburbs is full of potholes.
It looks dilapidated.
When the motorcycle was driving on it, the ride was bumpy and very unstable.
This caused Su Yan, who was riding behind Sister Zhou, to inevitably shake her body back and forth, making the ride very uncomfortable.
"Sister Zhou, didn't you say you are an experienced driver? Why are you driving so slowly?"
Su Yan, who was riding behind Sister Zhou, suddenly said, hating her for not driving fast enough.
After hearing this, Sister Zhou explained:
"There are too many potholes on this dilapidated road. If you drive too fast, it will easily roll over."
"And I'm afraid that the speed is too fast and the bumps along the way will make you uncomfortable."
Su Yan immediately responded:
"Sister Zhou, you underestimate me. I am in very good health and I won't feel uncomfortable."
"You don't have to worry about me. If you drive faster, just drive, I can handle it."
Seeing that Su Yan had said this, Sister Zhou no longer cared about anything.
With full firepower, the car speeds up all the way.
After about ten minutes passed.
Sister Zhou stopped the car and said to Su Yan behind her: "Brother Yan, that ancient house is in the forest, and the motorcycle can only go here."
"How far is it?"
"It's not very far. It only takes about ten minutes to walk."
"Then get off the car and let's walk there."
After saying that, Su Yan got out of the car first and looked at the surrounding environment.
The night was very dark and there was no moonlight.
You can clearly feel the lingering yin energy in the air, which is a good place to breed evil spirits and evil things.
Sister Zhou hid the off-road motorcycle in a place where it was not easy to be found and parked it, and said: "Brother Yan, the car is parked, let's go."
"Well, let's go."
Su Yan nodded, and then continued: "By the way, Sister Zhou, don't call me Brother Yan anymore. You are older than me. It sounds weird."
"Then...what would be a better way to call you?"
Sister Zhou looked at Su Yan and asked.
To be honest, she actually didn't want to shout out the words one by one, as she herself found it very difficult to speak.
But I didn’t know what to call him, so I could only call him brother to show respect.
"What should I shout..."
Su Yan pondered for a moment, then looked at Sister Zhou and asked, "What do you think is good to shout?"
"This...I don't know either."
"Well then, you can call me daddy from now on."
"???"
"Just kidding, just call me by my name from now on."
"Anyway, my name only has two characters, so it's easy to pronounce."
...
After a moment of hesitation over the title.
Under the leadership of Sister Zhou, Su Yan plunged into the forest where he couldn't even see his fingers.
Walking room.
Su Yan asked Sister Zhou on the side:
"The last time you were targeted by Lu Xiaolong and the others, I heard you mention some kind of Yin Yang Union. Is that a special organization?"
Sister Zhou smiled bitterly and said: "You may not believe it when I tell you. In fact, I don't know what kind of organization this is. I just know that it is very powerful."
"But I only know that it is powerful, and I don't know anything else."
"Nothing else?"
Su Yan frowned slightly and then asked, "But didn't you say last time that you were a member of the Yin Yang Union?"
Sister Zhou smiled bitterly again and said:
"I just worked as a temporary worker for this organization once before, and then just like Lu Xiaolong said, I continued to be famous and fake."
Hearing what Sister Zhou said, Su Yan's frown couldn't help but deepen.
Then he continued to ask: "Can you tell me about the temporary workers?"
Seeing that Su Yan was very curious, Sister Zhou also answered openly:
"Actually, it's nothing. It's more like a delivery person than a temporary worker."
"It was a man from the Yin Yang Guild who called himself a puppet master who came to me and dragged me to transport a box of things to an abandoned and unfinished building."
"After the delivery is completed, you will be rewarded with five rag dolls, which is the weird doll you saw that night."
After hearing this, Su Yan was a little confused and said: "You don't know this organization, so you dare to help them? Aren't you afraid of being cheated?"
Sister Zhou smiled and said, "This is because you don't know something."
"The Yin Yang Guild is very famous among some senior monster hunter circles, and they often find people to help with some temporary work."
"After successfully completing the work, generous rewards will be given, such as the weird doll I just mentioned. I haven't heard of anyone being cheated yet."
Su Yan nodded, and then continued to ask: "Then have you heard of the Paper Taoist?"
After hearing this, Sister Zhou thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I've never heard of it at all."
"Is this so..."
Su Yan frowned, and then continued to ask: "It is said that this paper Taoist seems to be live broadcast on the Huyu or Douhu platform. Are you sure you haven't heard of it?"
Sister Zhou said with certainty: "I'm sure of this, I've never heard of it."
After hearing Sister Zhou's affirmative answer, Su Yan became more and more confused.
Logically speaking, a member of the Yin Yang Union who frequently broadcasts live broadcasts and sells paper in the live broadcast room should be well-known.
How is this going?
Thinking about it, Su Yan immediately asked again: "Sister Zhou, have you ever heard of giant strange beasts that come out of mirrors or window glass?"
Sister Zhou glanced at Su Yan doubtfully, wondering why he asked so many strange questions.
Then he shook his head and replied: "I have never heard of giant alien beasts that come out of mirrors or window glass."
"Is this so..."
Su Yan responded and then said nothing again.
After five minutes have passed.
The two arrived at their destination and finally saw the rumored ancient house.
The ancient house occupies a large land value, estimated to be four to five hundred square meters.
If you take in the surrounding vegetable plots, chicken coops, duck coops, goose coops, lotus ponds, etc., it will probably be just over 10,000 square meters.
It seems to be about the same size as the standard 400-meter run, and can be regarded as a manor.
It can be seen that the owner of this ancient house is quite wealthy.
Under the light of lights and moonlight, Su Yan carefully looked at the environment around the ancient house.
Overall, it is a house with a rural feel.
It is really hard for people to imagine that there is a semi-epic-level ghost here.
"Are you two here to rest?"
While Su Yan was still looking at the surrounding environment, an old but vigorous voice came from upstairs in the ancient house.
Su Yan looked up following the voice.
What caught his eye immediately was an old man standing in front of the second floor window.
The old man has a white beard and white hair, and he looks to be in his seventies or eighties.
But his body is still strong and strong, with no tendency to be rickety at all.
The eyes are also bright and full of life.
There is no sign of twilight at all.
This should be the owner of the ancient house, an old retired monster hunter.
When Su Yan was thinking about this, Sister Zhou on the side responded:
"Yes, Mr. Hao, the two of us have been hunting for more than two hours, and we feel a little tired."
"So I want to take a rest in your house, do you think that's okay?"
The owner of the old house, who has been prostituted for free since his retirement, certainly has no objection to this.
He was even said to be extremely happy.
He immediately smiled and said, "Of course that's no problem. My house is built here just for you, the younger generation, to rest during hunting."
"Then thank you Mr. Hao."
"Thank you, no need to. Just tell me about your hunting experiences later."
As soon as the echo fell, Mr. Hao's figure suddenly disappeared from the window.
What replaced it immediately was the sound of someone coming downstairs unhurriedly.
"Sister Zhou, it seems that the owner of this ancient house is just like what you learned. He likes to entertain some monster hunters who come here to hunt at night."
Finished.
Su Yan then added: "But I don't know if it was my misunderstanding. I saw a trace of impatience on his enthusiastic face just now."
"Really? Why didn't I feel it?"
Sister Zhou said disapprovingly, thinking that Su Yan was too sensitive.
very quickly.
As the footsteps approached, the door of the ancient house opened with a click.
The next person who appeared at the door was the owner of the ancient house who had just been talking by the window on the second floor.
Take a closer look now.
Su Yan discovered that the owner of the ancient house was much stronger than what he had just seen in front of the window.
Visually, he is over 1.9 meters tall, and he is a muscular man who can punch a child with one punch.
Su Yan took a close look at the owner of the ancient house, and soon, a biological information panel popped up in the back of his mind.
【Name】:Hao Xiao
【Race】: Human race
[Level]: Quasi-epic
[Skill]: Soul Eater
What the fuck!?
Half-step epic creature?
When he saw the creature level on the owner's panel of the ancient house, Su Yan was shocked.
What is the concept of half-step epic level?
He is on the same level as Li Duanda, the former president of the Beijing University Student Union, and on the same level as Zhang Tao, deputy director of the Nanjiang Provincial Education Bureau. He is one of the best among the best.
It seems.
The owner of this ancient house was not simple when he was young.
"You both come in."
After saying this, the owner of the ancient house turned around and returned to the house.
"Then I'm sorry to bother you."
Sister Zhou stepped into the door first, followed by Su Yan.
The house is very spacious and the furniture is very simple.
There are no fancy decorations.
There are just tables, chairs, and an old-looking LCD TV.
"You two should sit here for a while and have a sip of tea first."
The owner of the ancient house, Mr. Hao, walked to the dining table and pulled out two chairs, motioning Su Yan and Sister Zhou to sit down here while he poured tea.
Then he added: "I'll go to the kitchen and cook you something to eat. It'll be ready soon."
After saying that, he took a leisurely step and walked straight to the kitchen in the back of the house.
"Thank you, Mr. Hao."
The two of them thanked the owner of the ancient house, then walked to the dining table and sat down.
After sitting down.
Sister Zhou took two cups and poured a cup of tea for Su Yan first, and then for herself.
then.
While drinking tea, he said in disbelief: "I didn't expect that Mr. Hao is really as hospitable as the rumors said."
"He lets strangers into the house to rest without rejecting them. Isn't he afraid of encountering some gangsters with ill intentions?"
Su Yan smiled and said, "You don't understand this. People often take care of these monster hunters like this, and their popularity is very important."
"Under such circumstances, anyone who dares to hit him or do violence to him will probably become a public enemy the next day and everyone will cry out for beating him."
"Besides, this ancient house looks simple in style, more like a retirement home in the countryside. It probably doesn't have anything valuable in it."
"Say, if you were a gangster, would you do such a thankless thing?"
After hearing this, Sister Zhou felt that it made sense and nodded in agreement: "It's true."
Seeing that Sister Zhou agreed with her explanation, Su Yan just smiled and stopped talking.
In fact, there is one most important thing that he has not told Sister Zhou, that is, the biological level of the old man in the ancient mansion is as high as half-step epic level.
An evolved creature of this level is afraid that others will have evil thoughts?
After all, the monster hunters who choose to hunt in this suburb generally have low creature levels.
Otherwise, there is no need to come here to hunt for low-level lonely ghosts. Wouldn’t it be nice to go to some mass graves with strong yin energy to hunt for high-level ghosts?
It didn't take long.
The owner of the old house took a leisurely pace and brought two plates of pastries from the kitchen.
One plate is water chestnut cake.
One plate is cookies.
It’s a very strange fusion of Chinese and Western desserts.
"You two, come and have some pastries."
The owner of the ancient house placed two plates of snacks on the dining table and signaled to Su Yan and Sister Zhou to have some.
Then he walked to the owner's seat at the end of the dining table, pulled out a chair and sat down.
"Then I'm not welcome."
Su Yan didn't show any restraint, picked up a piece of water chestnut cake, put it in his mouth and started eating.
This water chestnut cake doesn’t seem to work well.
The taste is a bit bland and the texture is too soft. It feels like it was made by a novice.
After swallowing the water chestnut cake, Su Yan picked up another cookie and ate it.
Then I found out very strangely that the cookie was not very good either.
The taste is too strong and the texture is too hard, like it was made by a novice.
Su Yan felt a little surprised at this situation.
Then he smiled and said:
"Mr. Hao, your craftsmanship is really good. The cookies and water chestnut cakes you make are much more delicious than those sold outside. You must have been doing it for many years, right?"
Hearing Su Yan's compliment, Sister Zhou, who was eating water chestnut cake beside her, raised her eyebrows, thinking that Su Yan was quite good at using polite words to praise others.
After hearing this, the owner of the ancient house, who was sitting at the head of the dining table, smiled and nodded:
"Yes, since I have lived in this ancient house, I have been making pastries such as water chestnut cakes and cookies when I have nothing to do."
"It's been about seventeen or eighteen years, so I'm doing pretty well."
"Yes, practice makes perfect."
Su Yan nodded in agreement.
Finished.
He looked at a photo of four people hanging on the wall and said, "Mr. Hao, is that photo hanging on the wall of you and your grandchildren?"
He knew that these were the three orphans adopted by Mr. Hao, but he still wanted to ask knowingly.
When Mr. Hao heard this, he said with some nostalgia: "They are not the grandchildren, but the three children I adopted from the orphanage when I moved here."
Said.
Mr. Hao seemed to be remembering the beautiful past, looking at the group photo hanging on the wall and saying:
"When the three brothers and sisters were adopted by me, they didn't have any serious names. They were all called Big Baby, Second Baby, and Third Baby, which didn't sound very nice."
"On the day of adoption, I renamed them. The youngest sister is Hao Tian, the second brother is Hao Huo, and the third brother is... cough cough!"
When he said this, the owner of the ancient house suddenly coughed.
"Mr. Hao, are you okay?"
Sister Zhou said with a concerned look on her face. She admired and respected this retired senior who was so hospitable to guests.
"Small problem, it's okay."
Mr. Hao smiled and then poured himself a cup of tea to moisten his throat.
He looked at the photo on the wall and seemed to remember something.
Suddenly he said sadly:
"It's a pity that these three children had a hard life. They all had inherited heart diseases and passed away one after another before they could grow up properly."
"The third brother was the first to leave. He was gone just the second year after he arrived. At that time, both brothers cried until their eyes were swollen."
"Then within a few years, the second child also left. He was really a poor baby."
The owner of the ancient house said very sadly.
For some unknown reason, the two children who passed away early were mentioned, but the eldest son who passed away last month was not mentioned.
"Condolences."
Su Yan didn't know what to say, so he could only say these two words to comfort him.
Then he asked very suddenly: "By the way, Mr. Hao, I recently heard that there is a semi-epic-level ghost here. Is this true?"