It's not as cold as yesterday, but it's not too cold. People on the streets have an extra coat on them.
The order on the street has returned to the past, with only a few collapsed wooden houses and the depressed expressions of the residents silently telling what happened before.
Anna stayed at the detective agency, while Lu Li went out alone to the coastal streets.
The rain was mixed with the sea breeze. Standing in front of the old Pick's Laundry, which still had no door, Lu Li stepped inside.
The sound of noisy conversations reached my ears, and the tables and chairs were as lively as a pub. Residents nearby chatted together and waited for their clothes to be washed.
Old Piqué walked over from behind the counter, chatted with the passing residents, and came to Lu Li to ask him to follow him.
Lu Li followed Old Pique to a darker corner of the hall, pulled out a chair and sat in, motioning for Lu Li to sit opposite.
"Right here?"
"Right here."
"They won't hear?"
"They won't hear it."
Yesterday's conversation seemed to have changed sides, but the meaning remained the same. Every time Lu Li asked, it was like he was trying to confirm something.
After standing quietly for a few seconds, Lu Li sat down in the chair in the corner under the gaze of Old Pique.
Here you can see the entire store clearly.
"What do you want to drink?" Old Pique asked with his arms on the table.
"Need not."
"My treat."
"A hot drink."
"Wait a moment." Old Pique stood up and walked to the counter.
Lu Li thought that someone testing his sanity would appear at this moment, until Old Pique came back with two cups of hot coffee.
"No doubt, it is indeed me."
Lu Li did not show any emotion, but Old Pique still guessed what Lu Li was thinking. He pushed a cup of hot coffee in front of Lu Li, and the other to the empty seat next to him: "Many firsts.
Exorcists who come to test will be suspicious, which is normal."
Lu Li's eyes turned away from the deserted and bustling shop, and fell on the empty seat next to Old Pique.
A palm covered with thick calluses stretched out to hold the back of the chair, pulled out the chair and sat down. He picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip: "Oh... you are not even willing to put the cane sugar?"
This old man with dazed eyes and a fiery temper seems to have a good relationship with the old Pique.
Old Pique shrugged: "I got confused, your cup belongs to him. Oh, I just want to see other expressions on your face, you won't blame me, right?"
Lu Li remained silent.
"Have personality." The old man chuckled, sitting sideways and resting his arms on the back of the chair.
"You are so cautious... maybe you can live longer than me." Old Pique muttered, not knowing whether it was a compliment or a sarcasm, and said to Lu Li: "I am responsible for asking questions, you are responsible for answering, he is responsible for grading, and other questions.
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Rating? Is this old man related to evil spirits?
"Let's get started." Lu Li still spoke briefly.
Old Piqué didn't care about Lu Li's attitude and coughed lightly and said, "You have to make sure your answer is accurate. If you're not sure, just say you're not sure."
"Can."
Old Pique stared at Lu Li and asked the first question in the buzzing and noisy shop.
"Do you think the world is getting worse?"
An indescribable and obscure aura permeated around the table, and gloom, sadness, and fear seemed to be attracted by the aura, emerging from the deepest part of my heart.
Lu Li realized that the evil spirit consciousness had appeared. It was affecting him and only him.
In the eyes of ordinary people, these are just ordinary questions, a little strange at best.
"Yes."
After a few seconds of silence, feeling the obscure aura, Lu Li answered.
"Wow." The old man's mouth moved exaggeratedly, but no sound came out.
"Are you afraid when faced with those weird and weird things?"
Lu Li calmly replied: "No."
The old man's eyes gradually became weird, and Old Pique asked the third question: "Will you do whatever it takes to survive?"
"Won't."
"You and a stranger are on a leaky wooden boat in the deep sea. The wooden boat can bear the weight of a person. In order to survive, will you push that person off?"
Lu Li frowned slightly, but still replied: "No."
This question made the whole session strange. The two questions before this were related to sanity, but the third question became a question similar to a psychological test.
Although the sanity value is related to psychology, it is only related.
"You and an enemy are on a leaky wooden boat in the deep sea. The wooden boat can bear the weight of a person. In order to survive, will you push that person off?"
Old Pique's fourth question just changed the characters.
"Yes." Lu Li's answer was still direct.
There may be many prerequisites for this question, such as the enemy being a good person, or the leakage of the wooden boat being blocked. But when answering the question, Lu Li would not take these into consideration, making the answer ambiguous.
Answer directly without thinking.
"You and a dog are on a leaky wooden boat in the deep sea. The wooden boat can bear the weight of a person. In order to survive, would you throw the dog over?"
"Won't."
The old man who had been silent suddenly interrupted and said: "That might make you drown."
Lu Li looked at the old man with his calm black eyes: "I can't decide other people's lives."
The old man grinned: "You pushed that enemy down."
"He has a grudge against me, doesn't he?" Lu Li replied.
The old man was speechless, and Old Pique seemed to smile: "The next question is about you and your good friends, but I think I don't need to ask."
We will have the utmost kindness towards strangers, let alone those close to us.
"Would you hurt a ghost that can't hurt people?" Old Pique read out the sixth question, and then looked at Lu Li as if he already knew the answer.
"Won't."
Lu Li's answer was not what he expected. After all, he saw a ghost following Lu Li last night.
On the other hand, the leisurely old man next to him seemed to have heard something incredible and sat up straight with his eyes wide open.
Old Piqué continued: "The next three questions are almost the same. Let me put them together and ask you: Are you capable of hurting evil spirits and evil gods that do not harm people? Are you weird?"
"What is that?"
Except for the last one, Lu Li had no contact or understanding with the first two. And the only weird thing he knew about might be that the weird things he thought about were not the same kind.
Old Pique said: "I thought you knew, then -"
"These are four weird systems that humans have sorted out."
The old man suddenly took over the words and clarified Lu Li's confusion: "The demon slayers at that time divided the frequently appearing weird beings into four systems: the evil spirit system, the evil god system, the evil spirit system, and the weird system."
"So boy, if they can't hurt people, will you hurt them?"
