Quick Travel: Destiny for Thirty Lifetimes

Yanzhou has only slowly prospered in recent years. It is located on the coast, with warm winters and cool summers. It should be a second or third tier city. However, a long time ago, because of an inexplicably abandoned Western-style building from the Republic of China, it has been known as a place where evil spirits breed, affecting fortune, and making it difficult to do business. Many businessmen inexplicably believed this and deliberately avoided doing business here. Over time, this place was called a "ghost town."

In fact, the locals in Yanzhou don’t care about these things, but some things are really inexplicable. For example, more than ten years ago, a real estate developer wanted to demolish the Western-style building left over from the Republic of China era and build a suburban villa complex. As a result, when they were about to start construction, the machines parked in front of the Western-style building could not be started. One of them even made a clanging sound in front of everyone, and then parts fell to the ground. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Those people took this phenomenon as a warning, and no one dared to pay attention to that place again.

Today, the center of Yanzhou is still quite lively. Except for the high-rise building in the middle of the city, the four streets in the other four directions are clearly divided into streets with different attributes. The east side is a characteristic commercial street, mainly for outsiders to visit, with the most complete variety of shops and all kinds of goods; the west side is a leisure pedestrian street, mostly where local people hang out, but many shops tend to be traditional, and there are also many century-old shops here; the north street is a night market snack street, which usually opens at 7 pm, and the shops on the east and west streets have to close at this time; there are only a few scattered shops on the south street, and they are usually closed at all, basically some Yin and Yang Bagua, fortune-telling and exorcism shops.

It is said that this layout was arranged by a very wealthy businessman and the mayor of Yanzhou, who specially asked a master to calculate it a few years ago. They were skeptical at the time, but now seeing that Yanzhou's economy is slowly picking up, they are very grateful for the master's advice at that time.

In an inconspicuous antique shop on the south street, Luo Yichen had just opened his eyes and regained consciousness when 001 simply and roughly inserted a few paragraphs of the background of the small world and information related to Lian Qingyang, and then disappeared.

Sure enough, Lian Qingyang's spirit body is now in that abandoned Republican-era western-style building, and Luo Yichen's identity in this world is the owner of an antique shop. He was born with the ability to see yin and yang, and was sent to a master by his family when he was seven years old. The master saw that he had a connection with him, so he accepted him as a disciple.

The master was a carefree person and took Luo Yichen to travel everywhere. During that time, he also taught him a lot of spells for drawing talismans. Luo Yichen had a very good understanding and learned about 70% of them in just ten years. Five years ago, Luo Yichen was brought here by the master to live for two years. Then the master told him that he had unfinished karma here and needed to wait patiently, so he left his only disciple and left.

Because Luo Yichen was his master's disciple, he got a shop from a businessman. Not only did he not have to pay rent, but the businessman also gave him 0.1% dividend every year, which was also earned because of his master.

Half of the antiques in his antique shop were given by his master, and most of them are used to make the shop look more attractive. Luo Yichen's main source of income is taking on ghost exorcism commissions.

Thinking about this, in fact, many rich people knew that he was the master's apprentice, and used large sums of money to let him go to the foreign-style building to exorcise ghosts, but the master had told him before that except for the ones in the foreign-style building, he could take on jobs in other places with his ability.

"It seems that I have to go to the western-style building to meet him. What is the best reason?" Luo Yichen lowered his head in thought, and subconsciously played with a few beads strung together with a red rope in his hand. It was just a few beads, three obsidian beads, two sandalwood beads, and one transparent bead. When the master gave it to him, he said that the transparent bead would be of great use in the future.

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At midnight, half of the shops on the south street opened. Luo Yichen pulled his work jacket closer, closed the door, and walked casually on the deserted street with his hands in his pockets. The taxi he took did not go to the south street, so he had to walk there first. For fear of scaring the driver, he did not dare to tell his destination, and only said a residential building that was relatively close to there.

"Young man, you're going home in the middle of the night? Are you a local?" The driver was quite talkative, and he started asking questions as soon as Luo Yichen got in the car.

Luo Yichen twisted the beads in his hand, ignoring the little ghost who was scaring him, and took over the conversation and replied: "I am a local uncle, my accent is so obvious."

The driver glanced at him in the rearview mirror and nodded. "Oh, I hear that. There's been a lot of tourists visiting our city these days, so business is booming. I often chat with them, so I asked out of habit. "Why are you coming home now, little bro? Are you staying with my family or on your own? Are you too busy at work? Don't work too hard. If you're so tired when you're young, it won't be easy when you're old either."

"Uncle, you're right. I work as an employee at a store on North Street and write novels on the side. Today, I happened to be watching the store, and ended up writing until midnight."

"Oh, it's quite tiring! I treat you as one of my own, I'm not saying anything bad about you..."

Luo Yichen responded to everything he heard, and told him some half-truths about his own affairs. As the two of them went back and forth, the journey didn't seem long. He knew that the driver might be a little scared driving in the middle of the night, and when he was scared, he would talk a lot, so he kept holding him to talk.

When they arrived at the destination, Luo Yichen paid the money, shook hands with the driver, and watched him drive away before turning and walking towards the western-style building. He walked neither fast nor slow, but moved very quickly. After about ten minutes, he stood in front of the closed door.