Fist of Imagination

Liang De returned to the loft apartment in Hongye Building on Shanqian Street, and ran into the old lady who came to return the pet at the door. He accepted the old lady's nagging for more than half an hour as Li Zhixian's distant cousin. After promising to take good care of the salted fish and her pet, the old lady left contentedly.

Liang De walked in with the bird cage. The owl in the cage kept looking at the old lady reluctantly, not happy at all to see its owner again.

Li Zhixian sat on the sofa with his legs folded, watching the 10 o'clock show, holding a can of Waterloo dark beer in his hand.

On TV, a man and a woman sat side by side on the rooftop and talked to each other. They drank the beer in their hands for almost half an episode. It was so lame that they could not be the male and female protagonists in a hardcore drama like Rural Love Story.

Li Zhixian took an average of three sips per can and threw it away as he drank.

Fortunately, Liang De had foresight and built a small briquetting machine into the scavenging robot, which can collect multiple cans and compress them into metal blocks the size of cigarette boxes, otherwise the house would be dirty again.

Li Zhixian was shaking her feet on the sofa, and the owl pattern on her socks seemed to be shaking her head constantly. She heard the footsteps and turned her head to greet the owl in Liang De's hand.

"Hey, Lili."

The owl opened its beak in the cage and said:

"The time has come."

It was shocking. This bird still has a smokey voice.

Li Zhixian said to Liang De: "Open the cage. It wants to eat and won't run away."

Liang De put the bird cage on the ground and opened it. The owl inside walked out of the cage door and gave him a look of distress, and walked to the kitchen by itself.

Liang De watched the talking owl skillfully open the kitchen cabinet door and grab a bag of bird food and a bowl to pour food for himself. It was so sensible that it made people feel distressed.

He said to Li Zhixian:

"Is this an owl or a parrot?"

"It's a long-eared owl. My original guide animal, named Lili, can only talk nonsense over and over again. It can't be compared with a parrot."

"You are willing to spend money on your pet. The main food and supplementary food are all imported."

Liang De glanced at the price tag on the bag of bird food. Wow, this bird eats better than people.

Li Zhixian took an empty beer can, squinted his eyes and aimed at the seemingly not very smart scavenging robot, and threw it accurately into the feeding port of the briquetting machine on its top.

"The guide animal is raised with funds from the bureau. In the past, they used to transfer money to my card, but later they changed to directly sending supplies. It's really inconvenient."

Liang De looked at this wine-stained salted fish and felt that he had understood why the evil disaster bureau changed to sending her supplies.

That is to say, bird food cannot be eaten with alcohol, otherwise...

"Lao Liang, take a look at how much reserve food is left in the cabinet. If there is more, I will sell a few bags online to buy alcohol."

The smoky owl was shocked when he heard Li Zhixian's words, and immediately spread his wings to block the kitchen cabinet door, and a deep voice came out of his beak:

"Evil is stirring!"

"Lili, you are so stingy! Isn't it okay to eat less?"

Li Zhixian walked down the sofa and approached the bird food in the kitchen cabinet step by step.

The owl Lili clung to the cabinet door tightly, with despair and courage intertwined in her eyes, and a helpless voice came out of her beak:

"The dark fate is about to come!"

Liang De gave the owl a reassuring look and stood up to stop Li Zhixian.

"The balance has been collected. I will go to the supermarket to buy the remaining offerings tomorrow, and buy you some discounted alcohol by the way. Don't compete with the birds for food."

Li Zhixian fell back, supported the floor with his hands, and collapsed back on the sofa with a neat back flip.

"We'll leave at nine tomorrow. I've set 30 alarms on your phone from 8 to 8:30. That should be enough."

"Lao Liang, we have a flexible work system. It's only the first week now. There's plenty of time. Do you want to be so rigid?"

Li Zhixian opened her phone and was about to delete the alarm when Liang De's sinister voice rang in her ears:

"Hair loss, gout, neck wrinkles, athlete's foot, hemorrhoids, body odor, bad breath, uncle odor, middle-aged obesity, crazy nose hair growth, lumbar disc herniation, oral ulcers, chronic gastritis..."

Li Zhixian felt cold all over and quickly added 30 more alarms on her phone. After adding the alarms, she saw that it was getting late, washed up, went upstairs and lay down in the bedroom.

"See you tomorrow." The rigid office worker's happy voice came from downstairs.

Li Zhixian pulled out the bedside table drawer full of wine plates and drank three 50 ml bottles of cognac before falling asleep.

"Damn it, being an employee of the evil god is more troublesome than being a magical girl..."

At 9:10 in the morning, the fresh food section of the supermarket was full of old men and old ladies.

Liang De asked Li Zhixian to push the shopping cart, and he stood two meters away from the shopping cart, flipping through the recommended offerings for today in "Chunzong Ritual".

The content of this parchment book is not static. The offerings used to worship Du Gongtai are different every day and must be determined according to the recommended offerings catalog of the day.

What he ordered online were mainly materials for building the evil god altar and several fixed offerings. Other offerings had to be purchased temporarily.

"A box of hazelnut chocolate, more than 110 grams. A can of seedless plums, more than 150 grams, a pack of original potato chips to share, two bags of fruit hard candies, and three boxes of matcha and strawberry Pocky.

Okay, let's go to the fresh fruit section."

"One pound of jackfruit, two pounds of lychees, four coconuts...

Pork ribs are so expensive, why not replace them with mutton slices... Sister, are these black tiger shrimps wild? Why don't they look like them to me? Okay, okay, I'll buy some and go back and try it.

Master, catch a melon seed, just that one, yes, yes, the skinniest one. It swims so lively. It must be delicious and make you skin it.

Are there colorful cloud bream?

Oh, I saw it, grab that one, the fat one, eh - yes. "

After buying the fish, Liang De opened the shopping list on Baochou's tablet, compared it with the parchment, and said:

"We still need two bags of laundry beads and a box of conditioner. Let's go to the cosmetic area."

Li Zhixian looked at the fish jumping in the shopping cart, then looked at Liang De, and said:

“Old Liang, are we buying sacrifices for the evil god, or are we shopping for his mother?

Is Mr. Lei Chunzongdu's request for sacrifices so close to the people?

Don’t you need to kill a few people to warm up the new altar? "

Liang De put away the tablet and said: "The evil gods you understand are those weird fish monsters that the Evil Disaster Bureau usually deals with.

The four friends of Thunder are all Kaiyuan practitioners who are high-ranking Qing Jie. Seriously, they may be able to subvert the entire Kukai system. Do you think they have something that they can’t get, and they must ask you to offer it? "

"Conditioner?" Li Zhixian guessed seriously.

Liang De shook his head: "These sacrifices are not for the evil god himself at all.

The Altar of the Evil God in Thunder Bluff has two main functions.

The first one is used for upper and lower communication, which is equivalent to the internal office phone number.

The second is to provide a trading platform among the followers of the evil god.

The things we bought today are all requests from other members of the Evil God. After you sacrifice these things, you will have 100 points in your account, and you will automatically be promoted to the junior user group, and then you can use the interior of the Evil God Altar normally. Communication function, you can also use points to shop on the platform. "

"You can still go shopping...then what do you mean yesterday when you said that I can get a 40% discount because I am the blood of a pious person?"

"Suppose someone else can get 1 point by sacrificing one portion of the sacrifice. You only need to sacrifice 0.6 portion of the same sacrifice to get 1 point."

"Then can I pay for the sacrifice?"

"Brother Xian, your ideas in this area are really broad and active..."

"Lao Liang, there is someone behind this project. In the beginning, small profits will be made but quick turnover. To develop users, I will only draw ten points. Who wouldn't be happy with this?

Introduce a few more of the Evil God's followers you know to me, and I will share the dividends with you on a per-person basis, two points per person! "

Li Zhixian waved his hand with great courage.

"But Brother Xian, have you ever thought about it, if you are an ordinary member of the evil god who does not have the privilege of making sacrifices, and then a person with blood who has served the evil god for generations and has been appointed by the superiors to be unspeakably loyal comes to find you, I asked you if you want to gather the evil god's wool together... What would you think?"

“This bastard must be trying to catch the law!

I have fallen for the bait of a colleague in the bureau before. That year she rated her as an advanced worker! "

Li Zhixian, who has rich life experience, was thoughtful and thought seriously about how to solve this key trust issue.

Liang De looked at her helplessly and sighed. It was half past nine. He turned on the cross-border communication switch on his dedicated mobile phone and refreshed his mailbox to see if Bai Hekong had replied to his email.