not scary story

The Hongmen Banquet was very "harmonious".

Zhang Tianshi reserved a private room, and the dishes had already been served in advance. The room was gloomy, and Yan Jiu, who had yin and yang eyes 2.0, was so cold that he almost wanted to run out as soon as he entered.

Ming Crow stood on the Bogu stand, staring at him, his expression looked like a ferocious vulture.

Young Master Qiao, who has weak yin and yang eyesight, didn't take this spooky environment seriously except that "this man is sick and eats and still lights candles".

After making it clear that the Hongmen Banquet was aimed at Yan Jiu, Yan Jiu was only stunned at the door for two seconds, then bit the bullet and sat down in her seat.

"This set meal is 'Hell's Eighteen Styles'. How about it? Interesting? Tomorrow is Halloween in the West. Now it's popular to join in the fun. I think it's very fun, so I ordered it on my own." Zhang Ruiyao dressed in standard The suit, hands folded to support the chin, a Taiwanese idol drama protagonist STYLE.

Qiao Yuan picked up a glass of freshly squeezed tomato juice that was as red as blood, and chuckled: "I've seen it abroad, and I prefer traditional culture, such as Longyang Eighteen Styles, to these foreign things."

Yan Jiu almost sprayed his mouth full of blood onto the "Hell Yama Palm" in front of him.

Damn, I really can't eat this pile of rotten Western-style food, why not go to the street to eat beef offal...

There was hypocrisy coming and going, Yan Jiu buried his head in choosing something he could eat from a pile of unappetizing food, just about to stretch out his chopsticks, a gust of wind blew his spine out In a cold sweat.

Just behind Zhang Tianshi, stood a pale woman with shawl hair and no eyeballs.

Yan Jiu's chopsticks fell into the dish.He stood up suddenly and wanted to run away, but when he caught sight of Qiao Yuan who was always sitting there calmly and Zhang Ruiyao with a mocking smile on his mouth, he gritted his teeth and stood still.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Ruiyao asked strangely.

"...I just wanted to have diarrhea, and then I couldn't feel it when I stood up." Yan Jiu stared at the ghost behind him, and sat back to his original position.

"Just eat when you eat, don't spoil our appetite with messy things." Qiao Yuan threw a chopstick and hit the female ghost's forehead.

A scream came out, and the female ghost squatted down covering her forehead, and quickly wiped off the makeup on her face: "Sir, this is a performance, can you stop attacking the actors!"

Yan Jiu tried her best to make herself look calm and continued to drink tomato juice.The moment he saw the shadow of the female ghost swaying on the wall, he had already realized that he had been tricked. Now that he knew who the target of the Hongmen Banquet was, he was even less likely to show his cowardice.

Zhang Tianshi, how much do you think about me?

Seeing that the other party failed, Zhang Tianshi felt a little regretful.

But he didn't intend to use any more tricks.For the person he likes, he has always believed in an aboveboard way of pursuing. If it wasn't because he was taken first, he would never have planned to use such a dirty trick to scare this cowardly guide.

No matter how he reveals Yan Jiu's shortcomings in front of Qiao Yuan, he is the guide that cultivators desire after all. From this point of view, Qiao Yuan will not give up Yan Jiu completely, and he should not offend this sweet pastry. cake.

Therefore, in Zhang Ruiyao's view, there is only one way to make Qiao Yuan empathize with another: Let Qiao Yuan know that they can have a deeper spiritual communication.

Come on, let them pretend to be more profound, it is best to let this little guy know how dazzling and untouchable the real Qiao Yuan is...

"I don't know which estate's wine you like. I learned some winemaking techniques when I was in France..."

"I only drink Coke." Qiao Yuan dried up the tomato juice and interrupted him without interest.

"..." The wine culture is not good.Then there is another aspect of reading. "What book are you reading recently? Do you have any recommendations?"

"Tao Te Ching."

"...We've all seen this."

"Do you read comics?"

"Oh? Meiman? Or Osamu Tezuka..."

"Doraemon. When I was a child, I was arrested and sent to practice Taoism without reading the complete set. Yan Jiu kept the full set at home, and it was hard to finish it."

"..." It simply cut off all his desire to chat.

The very down-to-earth Young Master Qiao started chatting with Yan Jiu about the latest Doraemon movie version, and even made an appointment to watch the movie together tonight, Zhang Ruiyao laughed dryly, and his heart began to vomit blood.

This Hongmen banquet was initiated by him, paid for by him, and bitter fruit swallowed by him.He had thought that it would be more difficult to pry the corner of the wall, but he never expected that Qiao Yuan's side also seemed to be deeply affectionate.

After seeing off the two young lovers, the crow finally flew back to his shoulder, and gave two comforting calls.

"Tsk." Thousands of words, finally turned into an unwilling tone particle.

Also unwilling is Yan Jiu.

I have been a good-for-nothing for a long time, and once I want to turn over one day, the ridicule and doubts I will encounter along the way will be much more serious than when I let nature take its course.

It’s like a student repeating a grade frequently, and everyone will only “hahaha” after too many times, but if one day the repeater stands up and tells everyone “I want to go to Harvard”, the “haha” will become countless” Hahaha", also comes with an echo effect.

The reason why salted fish turning over is a special case is because first of all, you have to bear the double contempt before you can stand up again.

This kind of psychological entanglement is difficult for outsiders to understand.

Not to mention Yan Jiu.

The side effect of yin and yang eyes is that his perception of all ghosts and evil spirits is much higher than ordinary people.The so-called evil spirit and evil spirit, in his intuitive experience, are all kinds of disgusting negative emotions, and the terrible scenes he saw that had nothing to do with him made this naturally kind boy suffer from all kinds of emotions for no reason. frightened.

Because no one can understand, he is also used to not talking anymore, and he dare not look directly.But this kind of avoidance is timid and cowardly in the eyes of others. He used to acquiesce and let it go. Now that he wants to change this view, Yan Jiu not only has to overcome this psychological barrier, but also start to bear and adjust negative emotions.

This kind of effort is invisible to others, including Qiao Yuan.

Qiao Yuan likes Yan Jiu, so he is naturally more tolerant of some of his shortcomings than before, but Yan Jiu doesn't see it that way, he knows how he is doing better than anyone else, and because he has been despised all the year round, he is quite sensitive to those mocking eyes.After formally interacting with Qiao Yuan, he began to care about those ridicules, trying to stabilize his timidity every time so as not to embarrass Qiao Yuan, but this time, he still failed.

What made him sad was not only his failure, but also the fact that Qiao Yuan was ashamed.

"He could have liked someone better", what Zhang Ruiyao said is absolutely correct. If he is still so useless, let alone Zhang Ruiyao, even Yang Si is more suitable for Qiao Yuan than himself. lovers.

However, he was not reconciled.

not at all.

Young Master Qiao, who didn't know that he was assigned to Yang Si indiscriminately, was still completing his task of "successor status".

Although she was not liked by her mother since she was a child, Qiao Jinshan has always been regarded as a candidate for Qiao Xia's successor because of her talent.Even in the six years he was sent to practice in the mountains, he was still not completely out of the secular world. He would be sent abroad for further training for two to three months every year, and he would have two hours of dedicated distance teaching time on weekdays.Therefore, there are not many obstacles to returning to this society.

Qiao Xia, who originally set up the Special Investigation Division with a playful attitude, made Qiao Jinshan reluctantly release the big cage of Qiao’s house because he was really doing well. When he came to Qiao Yuan’s place, no matter how he was the devil king before, he could not escape the trap thrown to him by the old man. Task.

Logically speaking, with Qiao Yuan's personality, he could continue to be in the world until the old man became disheartened.But Qiao Jinshan is worthy of being an old fox. Since Qiao Yuan was very young, he has been instilling in him the thinking and sense of responsibility of various heirs, so that no matter how rebellious Mr. Qiao is, he still can't be cruel enough to abandon the offer. A family business that created tens of thousands of jobs in G City.

By the time he realized that he might have been cheated by the old man, he had already gone further and further on the road of heir.

But from the quietness of the mountains to the glitz of the city, he needs time to adapt.

Sitting in the spacious luxury car, Qiao Yuan loosened his tie impatiently.

Today, he and Qiao Jinshan came to the opening reception of a high-end commercial complex. The host was the son of the deputy mayor's family.According to Qiao Jinshan's position, he didn't need to appear in person, but I heard that several big investors from Hong Kong were invited to this reception. As the host representative, the Qiao family and the heads of several large local enterprises will all make a collective appearance today.

The banquet will be held in the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the East Leeds Hotel.Many luxury cars for pick-up and drop-off are parked in the square in front of the hotel, and the light reflected by the car logos can blind the eyes of passers-by.

But today's weather is not beautiful, and there have been lightning, thunder and torrential rain since the afternoon, which is very rare in G City in late autumn.This caused many ladies in sexy evening dresses to be eclipsed by the autumn wind as soon as they got out of the car.

In order to resist the impact of the heavy rain, the banquet organizer dispatched a large number of waiters to the front to greet the distinguished guests in various ways, so that many personnel who should be in charge of logistics were also temporarily transferred to the front to serve as welcome guests.

When Qiao Jinshan and Qiao Yuan entered, Wang Hongyue, the deputy mayor, came out to greet him personally with an apologetic face.

"Mr. Li and the others are already upstairs. There are a lot of people blocking the road now. The banquet will not start so soon. Would you like to go up first, Mr. Qiao, and have a cup of tea together?" Wang Hongyue pointed to the few people standing inside, "Chen They have just arrived, sir."

Qiao Jinshan nodded with a smile: "The guest does as he pleases.

Wang Hongyue is very happy. After all, this is the first time he has facilitated a private exchange between several large consortiums. If he wants to develop in the business world in the future, this layer of contacts will become extremely important.So he took Qiao Jinshan and a few local entrepreneurs into the elevator together.

Qiao Yuan didn't follow.This level of communication is not suitable for him, a little boy, to appear. All he has to do is to recognize his face in the image of Young Master Qiao.

"Mr. Qiao, I'm really sorry. Mr. Wang has set up a special lounge for you. You can go there to rest first. We will notify you when the banquet starts." The foreman said apologetically.

Qiao Yuan nodded.He also doesn't like noisy banquet halls, unless it is necessary, he doesn't want to suffer from it at all.

What he didn't know was that when he stepped into that room, Qiao Jinshan, Wang Hongyue and others were in the ascending elevator. At the same moment, ten meters away from the hotel, there was a sudden explosion, and a raging water gushed out from the ground , Amidst the exclamation of everyone, the entire building of the Leeds Hotel suddenly lost power!

The ascending elevator stopped at the 33rd floor.

Qiao Yuan's room is a smart lock that is powered on, and it can't be opened even if the power is lost.

In the elevator, Wang Hongyue questioned the hotel staff violently with blue veins, and the answer he got was that the heavy rain caused the water pipe to explode, which also damaged the power supply line in the hotel area.

"Where's our backup generator?" Wang Hongyue wished he could hack these trash to death.

"I started it a few times and it didn't catch fire. We are contacting the maintenance personnel, but there is a traffic jam on the road now. I'm afraid it won't be so soon..." The management staff felt suicidal and apologetic.Many of their logistics staff are still welcoming guests, and the sudden power outage made all dispatches chaotic, and now even finding elevator maintenance personnel has become a problem.

After all, the hotel has just been established, and many employees lack teamwork. Under such circumstances, it is difficult for the VIP guests to be emotionally stable, even for them themselves.

Here Qiao Jinshan was trapped in a high-rise elevator, while Qiao Yuan was trapped in a ten-square-meter resting room over there.

He stared at the black shadows slowly emerging from the four corners of the room, and drew out the dagger that he always carried with him.

His eyesight, which had gradually adapted to the darkness, finally saw the monster that appeared in the room.

It was a jackal-like monster with a human face and bird wings on its back, but it walked like a snake.His image was so vivid that Qiao Yuan quickly recognized it as the transformed snake recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas.

The appearance of snakes often means floods, and Qiao Yuan guessed that there might be floods outside.

Floods, power outages, the hotel is probably in chaos, and no one will find themselves trapped in a short time.Qiao Yuan thought of this, took out his mobile phone, and found that the signal on it was zero.

This can't possibly be an accident.Qiao Yuan frowned tightly, clenched his dagger tightly, and prepared to take the initiative to attack.