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Chapter 98
Chapter 98 First place
Chu Banyang went to another place to do a commission, and he never came back for two or three days.
Lu Yingjiu sent him a message saying that he had something to discuss with him.
After a while, Chu Banyang replied, "Oh"
In the past two days after he came back, Lu Yingjiu sorted out the formation on his hand again.
The day the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk began was the day when the Yin Qi was the most intense.
And because this is the punishment from Heaven, it will expose itself when it uses its power. That day was also the most suitable place to find the pollution of the Heavenly Dao.
"Kan" is very cleverly designed, and it complements each other with the formation of going to the ghost world, one in the mirror and the other in the real world. The latter's formation eye is also the formation eye that starts the "scanning".
In other words, on the day when the Hundred Ghosts Walk at Night, they will summon the Spirit Ape in Yunshan Port, the Li Snake in the Yueshan Sanatorium, the Truth Listening in the Kangli Bridge, and the Peacock God in Shangyang University City. And Lu Yingjiu and Jingxian went straight to the place where the ghost gate opened to activate the formation.
The problem is that no one knows when the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk will start.
Maybe in a month, maybe in three or four months, maybe even in a year or two.
People were panicking, and everything could not settle down.
The atmosphere of Lujiang City has changed silently. Ordinary people still don't think that the ghost exorcist has moved around.
Or arrange formations on the edge of the city, or stick talisman paper in every corner, or distribute peace talismans from house to house.
The Green Lantern Festival and the family have joined forces to organize large and small ghost exorcism organizations, arranging them to patrol in an orderly manner, investigate potential dangerous areas, and disperse yin in a timely manner.
Hundred Ghosts Night Walk is always accompanied by violent storms.
Previously, the relevant departments used the excuse of natural disasters to open a large-scale curfew and fully cooperated with the ghost exorcist's actions. This time the routine has not changed. They issued a notice to remind that extreme weather is approaching, and hope that citizens will stock up on supplies.
Now Lu Yingjiu walks through the streets and feels the fluctuation of the talisman paper from time to time.
Like the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk a few years ago, the atmosphere before the war was extremely depressing.
On the afternoon of the fourth day, Chu Banyang returned from out of town.
Jing Xian sends Lu Yingjiu to the Green Lantern Festival to find him. Before getting out of the car, Lu Yingjiu was about to close the door, suddenly stopped again, turned around and kissed Jingxian.
Jing Xian raised his eyebrows: "Why are you so active today?"
"In case your vinegar jar turns over again inexplicably." Lu Yingjiu said, "I'm speaking from experience, so plan ahead."
He entered the building of the Qinglong Fair, encountered Little Li in the elevator room. Little Li had a lot of runes on his hand. didn't know what he was broken. He didn't see Lu YingJiu.
Lu Yingjiu took the elevator to the top floor and knocked on the chief's office.
He hasn't been back to this office for a long time.
The room has become the style of the young master Chu, with exquisite carpets, gorgeous hanging paintings, and any pen on the table is a gold-plated limited edition.
Chu Banyang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
He had just returned from a foreign place, but he was meticulous from hairstyle to clothes to shoes, and he was very decent.
Seeing Lu Yingjiu, he put on a subtle look again: "What's the matter?"
Lu Yingjiu didn't see him either, sat on the sofa, and repeated his rhetoric to Ye Feng: "There is one thing that concerns Baigui Yexing and my life, but you know that there will be great danger in the future, maybe even Will you die, do you still want to know?"
Chu Banyang was silent for a while.
The silence was subtle and unexpected.
Lu Yingjiu thought to himself, it is estimated that Young Master Chu wants to save face, but he can't find a way to refuse respectfully.
Just as he was about to find Chu Banyang a step down, he saw Chu Banyang looking at him with a bit of disbelief and... surprise, and asked, "Lu Yingjiu, you are, you are begging me for help. Is it? For the first time ever."
Lu Yingjiu: "..."
How could it be such a reaction! !
He replied candidly: "Yes, I can't do it alone and need your help."
Chu Banyang's eyes lit up obviously.
He walked quickly as if he didn't care, sat down opposite Lu Yingjiu, coughed, and pretended to be calm: "Tell me."
Lu Yingjiu confirmed again, did he think about it?
Chu Banyang said, "Let's not mention how you are. This matter has something to do with Baigui Yexing. I will take care of everything." He leaned forward slightly, "Besides, this kind of opportunity is a rare opportunity."
Chu Banyang has always been ambitious and pursued the peak.
Lu Yingjiu knew this.
An opportunity to stop the Hundred Ghosts from walking at night, and save Lu Yingjiu, is probably only once in this life... The temptation is too great, and Chu Banyang can't refuse it at all!
Lu Yingjiu thought to himself, as expected, Chu Banyang is still Chu Banyang.
He no longer hesitated, and carefully explained the whole thing to Chu Banyang.
Like Ye Feng, Chu Banyang couldn't believe it after hearing it.
The difference is that Ye Feng's shock is all written on his face, his mouth can't be closed, Chu Banyang barely manages his expression.
He said: "In other words, in order to find the way of heaven, I need to go to Shangyang University City to invite the Peacock God when the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk begins."
"Yes." Lu Yingjiu said, "Theoretically it is, but you may be obstructed by ghosts and attendants."
"...I see." Chu Banyang nodded and said, "I will find someone to go with me at the Chu family. According to what you said, I won't tell them the truth to avoid bad luck, but there will be people who are willing to trust me unconditionally. of."
Lu Yingjiu said again: "Wait for me to find someone at Chen Family, we have to step on the point together, it may take half a month."
"Yeah." Chu Banyang said, "I'll talk to the meeting." He hesitated before saying awkwardly, "The ghost world... the environment should be very bad."
This is a curious ghost world, and can only ask around the corner.
Lu Yingjiu smiled and said to him, "The environment of the upper ghost world is very good, and the Wangchuan River is not the stench we thought..."
He told the story of the ghost world, and Chu Banyang listened intently.
When the talk was over, the light of the setting sun came from the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sunset glow was as red as fire.
Lu Yingjiu said, "I don't have anything else to do. I'll go back first."
Chu Banyang nodded: "Okay."
Lu Yingjiu said again, "Thank you."
No matter how many times, Chu Banyang was not used to Lu Yingjiu's straightforward emotional expression, he looked away awkwardly, and responded, "I'll send you out."
"No need." Lu Yingjiu waved his hand, "I've been here for so long, why should I send it?"
But Chu Banyang still followed, and when he was about to open the door, he shouted, "Lu Yingjiu."
Lu Yingjiu looked back at him.
The orange-red light fell on Chu Banyang's shoulders and hair tips, outlining his tall figure and handsome features.
This situation is a bit familiar.
Like...the last time they met on the roof of the school, it was the same Xihui, the same burning clouds, and the same vast sky.
Then, what did they say then?
Chu Banyang looked at him and said, "Lu Yingjiu, I have a question for you."
"what?"
The two stared at each other for a long time.
Lu Yingjiu couldn't see the slightest expression on Chu Banyang's face, but in his eyes, there was clearly a dark tide. After an unknown amount of time, Chu Banyang said, "If I answered 'yes' that day, what would the result be?"
Lu Yingjiu remembered: On the school rooftop, Chu Banyang told Chu Qianju and his own story, and asked him: "Chu Banyang, do you like me?"
At that time, Chu Banyang threw a sentence "how is it possible" and hurried away.
Lu Yingjiu asked, "Why did you suddenly mention this?"
"I just want to know the answer." Chu Banyang said in a muffled voice and took a half step forward, "If, I mean if, my answer is yes?"
Lu Yingjiu was silent for half a second.
At this point, everyone understands each other's meaning.
He showed a very light, good-looking smile: "It won't be so."
Chu Banyang: "...Nothing will change?"
"Yes." Lu Yingjiu nodded, "Nothing will change. I have someone I like. If you say 'yes', I will reject you."
Another moment of silence.
After a long time, Chu Banyang relaxed as if he had unloaded his strength, and smiled at the same time: "As expected, you are still you, and you will always be so hated."
He didn't say more: "Come on, I'll take you downstairs."
Going outside, luckily the elevator broke down.
Two maintenance personnel blocked the door, sweating profusely, saying that it would take more than half an hour to repair it. There is also a ghost exorcist who is constantly pasting talismans.
Lu Yingjiu said strangely, "How can one elevator break down three times?"
As soon as the words fell, a tearful Little Li rushed out of the stairs. When he saw Chu Banyang, he rushed directly: "Master is sorry! I am not intentional !!!"
Lu Yingjiu: "..."
When he came up, he really saw that Little Li took the rune paper, but never expected that things had developed like this.
Chu Banyang frowned: "What have you done?"
"I, I, I just used a piece of runes in the elevator." Little Li cried out. "As a result, a ghost flew out, and kept bleeding in the elevator to make a ghost face. Once! Now the ghost is grabbing, the elevator is broken, what should I do, I won't let me pay, I won't be fired!
He cried with snot and tears, and he was about to get stuck on Chu Banyang's custom suit. Chu Banyang hated that iron was not steel, and pointed to the office: "Go there and wait for me."
"Good, good, oh-" Little li collapsed into the office.
After the surroundings were clear, Chu Banyang looked at Lu Yingjiu: "Sit down for a while? Wait until the elevator is ready."
"No." Lu Yingjiu shook his head, "I'll take the stairs, there are still people waiting for me."
Chu Banyang: "...I'll take you downstairs."
Lu Yingjiu thought that Little Li, the master of Little Li, was really first -class, and wanted to stop Chu Banyang, saying that it was not necessary at all, dozens of floors.
But Chu Banyang had already pushed open the stair door first.
The two walked back and forth in the stairwell, the footsteps echoed, and the emergency lights illuminated the long corridor.
After walking a few floors, Lu Yingjiu said, "You talked about Chu Qianju before. You said, because you have never been able to surpass Chu Qianju, you never forget it."
Chu Banyang nodded: "This is indeed my fault."
He cares about everyone who is better than him.
Lu Yingjiu: "Then...then you are born to care about powerful people, and you may pay too much attention to those people." He didn't know how to phrase it to be euphemistic enough, "I was thinking, is there any Perhaps, you have misunderstood this 'excessive attention' as another emotion?"
"You just care too much about me, and mistake this feeling for liking."
This is what he just remembered.
Chu Banyang liked him, but maybe he didn't like him at all.
But over the years, want to surpass his persistence.
——Because I kept looking at him, remembered day and night, and couldn't help but pay attention to his every move, so I had the illusion of "Do I like this person?"
Judging from the appearance of an industry elite and a workaholic, Young Master Chu, it is estimated that he has never been in love. If he couldn't figure out the delicate feelings, Lu Yingjiu wouldn't be surprised at all.
Chu Banyang did not answer.
The two went down to the tenth floor in silence, before Chu Banyang opened his mouth and started talking about other topics: "This is quite like what we entrusted last time."
"Well, yes." Lu Yingjiu said.
In one of the few commissions they have collaborated on, the two have been to a high-rise building without power.
It is also such a long staircase, dim emergency lights, rushing up and down dozens of floors. Lu Yingjiu walked in front, Chu Banyang followed him closely, and the two finally drove away the evil spirits in the building.
"It happened a long time ago." Chu Banyang added, "After so long, we are going to act together again."
Lu Yingjiu smiled.
Chu Banyang said, "At that time, you were also walking in front of me. I kept looking at your back. Do you know what I was thinking?"
Lu Yingjiu: "...After pushing me down, you can be the first?"
Chu Banyang: "..."
He was so angry that his brows jumped, and if it wasn't for his good tutoring, a swear word would come out.
He took a deep breath and calmed down: "I was looking at you at the time, thinking about when I could surpass you. I've been watching your back for too many years."
"Oh." Lu Yingjiu said.
"However, I also thought about other things that day, for example, what should I do after surpassing you?" Chu Banyang said, "I thought about it, but I still felt that I couldn't find another goal. So there was a moment, I think it's always good to be like this."
—That staircase was so long, so dark, it seemed like it would never end.
Lu Yingjiu flashed a flashlight with him and walked down layer by layer.
Chu Banyang looked at his white shirt, at the ends of his soft hair, at his fair and slender neck, and suddenly felt:
It would be good if it went on like this forever.
For the first time in his life, his innate competitive spirit, his unalterable perfectionism, failed.
Lost in a rout.
If he keeps going like this, he will never get the first place, and he will always have a goal to chase.
But Lu Yingjiu will always be in front of him.
Hearing this, Lu Yingjiu raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Second place, do you still have such thoughts? It doesn't match your personality."
Chu Banyang didn't say a word.
They moved fast, and they reached the first floor in no time. Open the corridor door and go out, the sun is shining outside.
Chu Banyang sent him to the gate, lowered his head and lit a cigarette.
Lu Yingjiu said, "I thought you didn't smoke."
"Very few," Chu Banyang held a cigarette in his hand, "I rarely smoke."
"Drink less." Lu Yingjiu said, "Then I'll go first?"
Chu Banyang nodded.
After waiting for Lu Yingjiu to walk a few steps away, he said again, "You're wrong about one thing."
"I really don't understand delicate feelings, but I can still distinguish between 'persistence' and 'like'. In this life, you are the only defeat I am willing to lose."
Lu Yingjiu: "..."
He looked back at Chu Banyang and saw that man in a suit and leather shoes standing at the door, still as proud and high-spirited as when he first met him.
He fixed his eyes on Lu Yingjiu and said, "Everything will go well, the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk will end, the pollution of the heavens will be resolved, and the curse of Chu Qianju and the peacock will disappear, and I will rely on this time. The opportunity to make a name for yourself. When these are over, I will still try my best to surpass you, you have to be careful."
Lu Yingjiu smiled: "Okay, I will."
"But until then, you have to live a good life." Chu Banyang also rarely showed a smile.
——He seemed to have finally let go of something, his eyes widened and his heart calmed down.
Lu Yingjiu nodded and waved: "Goodbye."
"Goodbye." Chu Banyang said, "My first place."