Greed

In the conference room, as soon as the discussion was over, all the medical staff filed out and went back to their respective jobs to be busy, leaving Ye Donglai and the lunch box untouched at all.

Ye Donglai walked to the window and stretched out his fingers to pull down the blinds, just in time to see the scene of Xing Jiuye and He Ping leaving in a taxi.Although it was expected that the other party would be discharged from the hospital, they did not expect them to protect He Ping so closely that even the woman who drove the taxi was a tricky character.

A nurse turned back to pick up the forgotten pen, saw Ye Donglai staring out of the window very unhappy, and asked him: "Doctor Ye, are you okay?"

He immediately returned to a gentle look, and replied with an apologetic smile: "No, it's just that my stomach is not feeling well, and I want to eat later."

"Hmm, then please turn off the power of the conference room." The nurse nodded and walked out without noticing anything different.

Ye Donglai smiled back, but when he looked back, his face darkened.He wanted to get the power of Qi Spring, which was originally in his pocket, but He Ping took advantage of it, he was not reconciled.

What annoys him the most is that He Ping is with that evil ghost. I really don't understand what Yijiu and those guys are thinking, which is why he and Yijiu can't get along.

A red light flashed across the sky, so fast that no one noticed it. In the next moment, Ye Donglai realized that there was a breath of air in the room. Looking back vigilantly, he saw a guy over two meters tall staring at him. smile at him.

That thing was covered in white hair, and he swung his hand towards him, the red palms aroused the impression of Ye Donglai, he couldn't help exclaiming: "Zhu Yan!"

"Hee hee hee, this stinky fox is very clever, and recognizes me. If you dare to make trouble in the area under my jurisdiction, see if I don't devour you."

Zhu Yan inhaled fiercely to inflate his chest, and then compressed his body into the size of a teenager. He flew out with a stride, but instead of attacking directly, he galloped across the conference room.

Ye Donglai responded to all changes with the same attitude, and planned to say something to divert the other party's attention.

"Actually, I didn't do anything. At the time of Xigu, I lost control of my emotions and hurt He Ping at most. Ye Donglai was already doomed, so I took over this body by the way. Even if you are the current head of the demon department, you can't judge without reason. What I have done, Yijiu is just a company, an office, and does not represent the common sense of the world—”

"Nonsense, shut up!" Zhu Yan didn't intend to listen to his nonsense, shouted and rushed towards him.

As soon as Zhu Yan pounced, Ye Donglai immediately found a corner and slipped to the door, almost letting the monkey's paw wring his head off.He took advantage of Zhu Yan's momentum and opened the door to escape. Zhu Yan directly broke through the glass and leaped high into the sky, rushing towards Ye Donglai who was fleeing in the opposite corridor, but he missed him again.

"Good boy, I must eat your fox liver to make up for it." Zhu Yan chased after him angry and excited. Ordinary people can't see the sudden growth of its body with the naked eye, but feel a heat rushing through the air.

Ye Donglai panicked and ran into the narrow room, which was not as big as the conference room, where there was no room to hide or dodge, and there was no window. He was sweating profusely and stared at the only entrance, where Zhu Yan was already blocking.

"Hoo...hoo..."

"For a human being, you are running fast, Zhihehe." Zhu Yan stretched his arms and grabbed him.

Ye Donglai's eyes burst out with golden light, and he responded to the enemy with his own body. He grabbed several syringes of different lengths and thicknesses and said, "It's too aggressive. I want to eat my liver alive. Let's see who will be the tonic!"

Zhu Yan made the area around the door into a closed space, and the floor was still as quiet as usual, and no one noticed anything unusual. Until around [-]:[-] in the evening, a medical staff found a dead body in a treatment room for discarded medical supplies. .

The corpse was filled with syringes, and the neck was forcibly torn off. Numerous syringes from which blood had been drawn were scattered on the corpse and the ground, as well as fine white hairs all around.

That night, He Ping sat in a small apartment and stared at the news, saying, "It's too bloody, how did it happen like that."

Xing Jiuye tasted the oolong noodles offered to him by He Ping and replied: "It's that fox. I informed the Demon Department to clean it up, but I didn't expect those guys to still do things as they please, no matter what disturbances will be caused in the world."

"Oh...because the whole picture is a mosaic, I can't see who the dead person is."

He Ping smiled wryly, thinking that Xing Jiuye had no right to criticize other people's way of doing things brazenly, he also acted recklessly.

"But that monkey is only responsible for expelling the monsters in the courtyard. Once Ye Donglai dies, that fox may appear tonight."

He Ping chewed the dumplings, and it took two or three seconds before he understood from Xing Jiuye's calm and deep eyes, and almost choked. "Cough, are you talking about stealing my body?"

Seeing that he was asking very seriously, he thought about other possibilities together, and solemnly said: "This is a possibility."

He Ping let out a sigh of relief and patted his chest: "But it's also possible that you won't come."

"Wrong, the other possibility is to forcibly absorb your spirit without hesitating to destroy your body. His three souls should be able to withstand it. After all, even a fool like you can swallow those energies. It's not impossible for him to do it. "

He Ping swallowed, stood up and started pacing back and forth uneasily, then took out a pen sealed in a yellow cloth and said, "Draw some talismans for self-defense, and then, uh, aren't you a warlock? Help me be a stand-in, anyway let me That fox couldn't find me, and even if it could find it, it wouldn't be able to touch me."

Xing Jiuye raised his eyebrows and teased him with one hand on his cheek: "Do you want to save yourself more, or do you want to mourn the phoenix?"

"Tch, grudger. Forget it, I'll figure it out myself."

He Ping began to rush around before finishing the dumplings.Xing Jiuye was too lazy to stop him, and even gloated and made sarcastic remarks, holding up his chopsticks and gesticulating: "Placing salt in the corner can only prevent ghosts without cultivation."

"There is a difference." He Ping is ashamed to admit that he lacks knowledge in this area. Even if he sucks a lot of air, he will not be able to use it. He is really a super novice.

"Running out to pull the leaves now may cause more trouble." The expert continued to pick.

"It's better to write more characters."

"Not all talismans will work. If you write them now, the talismans will only be effective."

"But didn't you say that I can use it for any drawing?"

Xing Jiuye took a sip of the soup and replied, "Yes. But it's not a hundred-test-one-hundred-and-a-half-hundred-and-a-half-hundred-and-a-half-hundred-and-a-half-hundred-and-a-half-year-old. It's useless to dispatch soldiers without even sealing the god's seal."

He Ping pursed his mouth and glared unhappily, and said, "I won't sit still! Anyway, the effectiveness is limited, so I just keep writing—"

"Oh, I remembered..."

"What's the matter?" He Ping looked back at him with his hand holding the pen held high, and found that he was looking at him with an ambiguous expression. The eyes were full of eroticism, and made him feel cold from the tailbone all the way to the top of the head. "What are you doing? Tell me."

"Yesterday you let out a little bit of energy. If you run out of scribbles today, you will get tired very easily because you are not good at regulating breath with luck."

"Yesterday? How could I..." He Ping blushed suddenly, gritted his teeth and said, "I won't, I won't let you go even if I'm a ghost."

Xing Jiuye opened her lips gracefully and responded, "Go ahead."

He Ping was furious, and he began to suspect that Xing Jiuye wanted to harm him deliberately, so that he could not guard against it.However, Xing Jiuye did understand Gu Yuecan's personality very well. Before eleven o'clock in the evening, a huge fox with black hair and golden eyes appeared in the courtyard of the apartment, at least four stories high.

He Ping, who was lying on the table playing online games, suddenly sat up straight and looked out. The black fox was half hidden in the night, with a pair of golden eyes shining paradoxically.Xing Jiuye appeared in an instant, tore off He Ping's immature talisman paper, and walked out of the balcony through the French window.Although sparks exploded when the fingertip touched the talisman paper, it did not hurt him at all.

"It's so early." Xing Jiuye greeted him lukewarmly.

Without further ado, the fox rushed forward to attack at an extremely fast speed. The whites of Xing Jiuye's eyes turned black, his pupils turned bright silver, and he stretched out his arms to block the black fox with a huge dead white scythe.

In the atrium, one side is a mixed blood half-demon with the blood of a fox demon. Even if the body dies, the soul is not as fragile and ignorant as a newborn ghost; unpredictable.

Strange winds raged in the courtyard, and in a certain space, a demon and a ghost were fighting fiercely. He Ping, who was watching the battle, forgot that the enemy was targeting him for a while, and began to collect materials with the spirit of a writer. If you take a closer look, you will find that it is actually made of countless bones, showing its sharpness and invincibility.The minions of the fox demon are gradually becoming overwhelmed, but the fox demon did not show any weakness, and jumped to the top of the courtyard. Tonight is the eve of the full moon. What kind of plan does it have—”

He Ping nervously ran to the balcony to watch the battle, and the sickle wind caused by Xing Jiuye's waving of the scythe happened to hit He Ping.His eyes changed slightly, he lifted the sickle and swung the chain on the long handle, and the long chain brushed in front of He Ping to slow down the aura that could cut a person in half alive.He Ping was startled, jumped and sat on the balcony, cursing: "What are you doing!"

Xing Jiuye had no time to pay attention to him, and secretly cursed "Idiot".In less than a second, his entire spiritual body and the scythe were hit to the ground by several bursts of strange force, and an earthquake suddenly occurred in the whole apartment, He Ping was stunned.

The black fox became even bigger, stepped on the courtyard and said with a sneer, "This is revenge from last time."

The black fox slammed towards the balcony, He Ping hurriedly backed up a few steps, but when he thought of Xing Jiuye's safety, he stepped forward worriedly, angry from fear.

"Oh, you've become more courageous." Gu Yuecan said.

"That's right. I don't understand those Buddhas, Taos, fairy demons, Jesus Christ, etc. I'm very nerdy and timid, but I... I, I..."

"How are you?" The black fox slowly approached him. "Ready to be swallowed by me?"

"I have my own way!"

"Help? Xing Jiuye has already been sent to hell by the monster power I filled with Yuehua. It may take some time for him to come back. Hahahaha."

He Ping was furious.He was angry at the fox for hurting Xing Jiuye and being aggressive, angry at those cultivation skills, and the technique of subduing demons and subduing demons was too tedious and troublesome, but he was even more angry at himself for being useless, and what made him most angry was that he was completely looked down upon.

"I don't just ask for help every time!"

The black fox narrowed its eyes, looked contemptuously, and raised its claws to attack He Ping.He looked at He Ping's ridiculous bluff, how could he have his own way, heh heh heh, it's just a dog jumping over the wall in a hurry...

"Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe, Jie, Array, Column, In—" He Ping made his handprints with a very serious expression.

"Don't be stupid, you think this is playing a nostalgic childhood cartoon."

"Front!" He Ping finished reading the last word of the formula, pushed his handprint towards the black fox, and shouted: "Zhu Xie!"

At the same moment, Julina, who lived across the street, was halfway through eating kimchi ramen, and her whole body shook as if electrified, and the whites of her eyes rolled over and she fainted.It turned out that her soul turned into a water dragon and went straight to the sky above the courtyard. The water dragon glared at the black fox sharply and remembered that it had not avenged its past. It swooped down with its dragon claws, murderously intending to tear the black fox to pieces to vent its anger.

Gu Yueshen was so frightened that he almost lost his soul. He still had a physical body as a shield before he was alive, plus he was born with the advantage of being able to fight against the dragon girl. Now, no matter how powerful he is, he is also overwhelmed by her courage, so he had to dodge by luck.

The water dragon still wanted to chase after him, but it was too far away from the deity and returned to Julina's body. When she woke up, she saw Cheng Qiaoxuan was so frightened that her eyes were filled with tears, her face was embarrassed and she didn't know how to explain the situation just now.

"Nana, you suddenly became weird again. We must go to say goodbye to you some other day."

Julina's face was stained with kimchi. This time she knew that the good thing done by the neighbor across the street affected her, so she gritted her teeth but forced a smile to appease Cheng Qiaoxuan and said, "I'm fine. Cheng Cheng, I'll go to the opposite side for a while, and I'll be back soon."

He Ping, who inexplicably succeeded in exorcising evil spirits, did not expect it to be so smooth. He scratched the back of his head and said to himself: "Wow, I am so strong that I exploded. How can I do such a mess? Fortunately, I used to watch TV series with my sister, and I hope this trick Don’t be accused of plagiarism. Ah, it’s about how did that dragon come from just now, why does it seem familiar…”

Whenever he had a feeling of déjà vu, nothing good happened. Subconsciously, he turned his head and looked into the house. The old wooden door was kicked a few times, and he reluctantly opened the door to be greeted with a fist.

Julina hit him on the shoulder and asked, "Hey, it's you, right! I flew out of my body just now, what do you think of me?"

What Yuanshen has done, her deity may not have a clear impression. He Ping was just rejoicing, when the top of his head was hit hard, and he cried out in pain: "What are you doing?"

Julina showed her beautiful middle finger knuckles, smiled flawlessly, and continued to knock on the top of his head generously: "You still know the pain, you know the pain, you know the pain, say, say?"

He Ping hid and shouted for help.Not to mention that he would be afraid, the monsters from all over the world might even shy away from Xiao Chamou.

He complained helplessly: "If I were Monkey King, I would do my best to do somersaults to avoid you."

The fox demon didn't know where he was bombarded by He Ping, and Xing Jiuye was also missing. He Ping decided to report to Yijiu the next day before making plans.

He is Jiang Ruiyuan, a failed student in the special judicial examination.Since he was a child, he only knew how to read, and nothing else, not to mention common sense of life, and he even had a handful of jobs.

His parents left him as a baby and disappeared. Fortunately, his grandmother raised him and lived by renting an apartment.He didn't give up after failing the exam. It was only because his grandma suffered from dementia that he couldn't take the exam well.However, grandma later disappeared too.

Even calling the police and posting missing person notices failed to find grandma. Jiang Ruiyuan has been looking for it for half a year.

This day, he went to help a friend finish the night shift. It was a job at a convenience store. After get off work, he took a bag of food home and stuffed it in the refrigerator. When he passed Chuantang, he glanced at the bulletin board. promotional flyer.

Jiang Ruiyuan took out the list to browse, and muttered to himself: "It turns out that tomorrow is the 24th. It's almost time to collect the rent." In the middle of the night, a strange wind suddenly blew up. He subconsciously looked into the atrium and walked in. The surroundings were dark and empty. There are only a few rooms with lights left, most of which are night owl tenants.

He doesn't take the elevator to go upstairs, he likes the sense of stability of stepping on the stairs.However, when I took out the key at the door and turned the doorknob, my heart felt dull, because no one at home would wait for him to come back, so lonely.Most of the residents in this apartment are single, because there have been several accidents before, some rooms are difficult to rent, and normal families will not rent, so those who will come to rent are those who do not believe in evil, are bold, and have no taboos.

Jiang Ruiyuan put the food in the refrigerator, tied the household garbage into a bag and put it outside the door. When the door was closed, he heard men and women arguing downstairs. He is not a cock who meddles in other people's business, but it will disturb other residents in the middle of the night. The landlord, he sighed helplessly and planned to go downstairs to see the situation.

There are only two tenants downstairs, one male and one female.Jiang Ruiyuan rang the doorbell of the boy's house to ask about the situation. The gentleman who opened the door looked gentle and handsome, wearing old glasses that were a little scratched. Although he had met several times, he was still a stranger.

"Excuse me...Mr. He?" Jiang Ruiyuan asked hesitantly. He remembered that Mr. He was more round and cute before, but now he still has lying silkworms. The person in front of him has similar charm, but he has lost a lot of weight.

Just as He Ping was hit on the head by Chacha, he was surprised to see the landlord in the middle of the night. He rushed back to the house to search for things, then grabbed the envelope bag from the drawer and stuffed it with banknotes. He smiled shyly and said, "Sorry, it used to be I delayed the longest, no wonder you have to come early to collect it. Come on, this is the rent for this month."

Jiang Ruiyuan took the envelope bag, paused and smiled. "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. Actually, I wanted to ask you what happened to the neighbor across the way just now, because I seemed to hear the sound of arguing. It's late at night after all..."

He Ping came over knowingly, apologized with a blushing face, and watched Jiang Ruiyuan go up the stairs after explaining.He Ping actually admires Mr. Jiang, he is an honest man with a good temperament, but his personality is a bit boring, a bit like his former self.

He Ping turned around and closed the door, murmured: "Please ask Mr. Wei to come and see Feng Shui some other day."

Jiang Ruiyuan collected the rent and went back to the house, thinking of He Ping's funny and cute appearance just now, he couldn't help smiling.The smile reflected on the dark screen in the entrance made him realize that he hadn't smiled for a long time.

Jiang Ruiyuan thought that it was time to clean up, and a change of environment might change his mood.Looking back at the situation in the house, there are many books and publications piled up in the corner, and the kitchen and some rooms are always turned off and the lights are not turned on because they are not frequently used.

Recently, the sound of things falling from time to time can be heard from the utility room, and there are strange noises coming from somewhere, maybe a mouse has been brought in, which makes him mentally unwell.

He locked the door, took a roll of photographs from his bag, and went into the darkroom.A friend was playing photography. Seeing that he was always depressed, he taught him to take pictures. The two vacated a room and arranged it as a darkroom, and they often got tired of it.

The darkroom was lit with red light, a pile of processed photos were almost all black and white photos, only a few landscapes and the sky were color photos, he sighed unconsciously after putting down the negatives, and before turning to leave, a gust of wind blew past him in the darkroom The nape of the neck.

Jiang Ruiyuan didn't think much about it, he thought he forgot to turn off the fan, but when he looked back, the fan was turned off, the room was airtight, but where did the wind come from?

His gaze could not help falling on a few enlarged black-and-white photos of the waterfall that he and his friends took up the mountain. The place where the view was taken was a long suspension bridge, and behind the bridge was a towering white waterfall like silk.The wind seemed to be blown out of the photo.

They had a great time that time. Jiang Ruiyuan developed the black and white photos, and also processed the colored ones to send to friends, but just now he always felt that someone else was staring at him in the darkroom.

Jiang Ruiyuan took one of the black and white photos out of the folder and looked at it carefully, the more he looked at it, the more puzzled he became. "What are these... what..."

The pupils dilated instantly when they came into contact with the photo. It was the fear that had penetrated into his heart for a long time. Countless thin white lines appeared on the edge of the suspension bridge, as strange as many white nematodes growing in the water and soil. The number was so dense that he thought it was the reflection of the outline of the object. light.

Jiang Ruiyuan stared at them, and found that the white threads were wriggling. It turned out that they were all limbs.

"Ahhh——" He was so frightened that he threw the photo away, and his incalculable hands and feet fell with the photo, and when they touched the floor, they naturally made an itchy rubbing sound.

Sasha...

Just like the rustling sound he had heard before, it was really similar, exactly the same.

Jiang Ruiyuan rushed out of the dark room in fright, and the room with crimson light was like a bloody mouth when he turned his head, which made people tremble.It seemed that a rotten black limb would jump out of the crack of the door the next moment and strangle him.

He turned his face away and didn't dare to look at it again, let the darkroom light stay on, and dialed his friend's cell phone in annoyance.However, the mobile phone of the friend who taught him to take pictures was never connected, and it rang twice and was directly transferred to voicemail.The situation of not being able to contact continued for a while, and he felt extremely lost.

Could it be that his friends thought he was annoying and began to alienate him?

He admits that he is really easy to rely on people, and once he gets to know them well, he likes to be with people. What he fears most is loneliness.

But he has lived here alone for half a year since his grandma disappeared. If it weren't for the care of his friends, he would not have been able to live alone for so long. He believes that people cannot survive alone, not only physically, but also psychologically.

"Why didn't you answer my call?" Jiang Ruiyuan trembled slightly, suppressed his breath, then dropped the phone to the ground, screaming hysterically.

He is really tired, because he is afraid of causing trouble to others, so he has been reluctant to take the initiative to talk about his thoughts, for fear of being rejected and regarded as a burden.Grandma and friends who take the initiative to care about him always think him stupid, but if he is not a burden, why would his parents abandon him?

"Why didn't you answer the phone, I just want to hear your voice." Dejectedly, he picked up the phone and stood in the dark outside for a long time in a daze.

Anxiety, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, and negative emotions tormented Jiang Ruiyuan. When he regained consciousness, he found that he was standing outside Mr. He's door and pressed the doorbell by accident.

In a few seconds, He Ping came to open the door, with a shy and clean smile on his face, and asked him politely: "Mr. Landlord? Ah, did I underestimate the money for you!" He looked flustered, like a cute puppy. chipmunk.

"That's right." Jiang Ruiyuan smiled embarrassedly and said, "Mr. He, you can call me Jiang Ruiyuan or Ruiyuan. I want to ask you if you heard any strange noises recently?"

"Strange sound?"

"Like a mouse or something."

He Ping crossed his arms and thought seriously, and replied, "No."

"Um……"

He Ping saw that Jiang Ruiyuan's complexion was not very good, Yintang turned black, and he couldn't help but worry: "There are mice in your room?"

Jiang Ruiyuan smiled wryly: "It seems so."

"Otherwise, I'm going to go shopping tomorrow, and I'll help you find a mouse trap. I used to use that when there were mice in my house, or do you want a mouse trap? I also know where to buy rat poison." He Ping enthusiastically provided a solution, and Jiang Ruiyuan slowly calmed down and listened to him.

"Mr. He, you are really enthusiastic."

"Hey, everyone is talking like that." More than half of the people He Ping is talking about are not human.He Ping noticed that Jiang Ruiyuan frequently glanced at the stairs going up, and couldn't help asking: "You are so afraid of rats, why don't I see if there is any anti-rat medicine in the house."

"...afraid." What he was afraid of was not the mouse, but something that was not a mouse, enough to arouse his fear.

"I think you can choose a clean room to sleep in first. I remember there are one or two unoccupied rooms in the apartment."

"Yes. I have no choice but to do this first. I won't disturb you, Mr. He, you should go to bed earlier."

After Jiang Ruiyuan finished speaking, he took the elevator upstairs, He Ping looked at it puzzled, because in his impression, the landlord never took the elevator. According to the gossip of other neighbors, the landlord was abandoned by his parents in the elevator when he was young.

"Eh?" The closed elevator door brushed a puff of white smoke, He Ping looked down, there was black air spreading from the route Jiang Ruiyuan had walked, he clapped them away with several palm gestures, and murmured worriedly: "Look The landlord may be in trouble recently, Xing Jiuye will not come to the Yang Realm, I can handle it, right?"