soul collector

"Ah, the watch has stopped." Li Ziping walked up to tiptoe as he spoke, trying to take the clock off the wall.Reluctantly, he was short in stature and short in hands, so Tang Xiu couldn't reach it even after tiptoeing twice, so Tang Xiu had no choice but to sigh and walk over to reach out to take down the clock.

Open the battery cover on the back, and there are two AAA batteries inside.Li Ziping reached out to pull out the battery and said, "I'll ask Xiao Wu to send a new battery later."

"Wait a minute." Tang Xiu suddenly stopped him, stretched out his hand and said, "Bring the battery."

"What's wrong?" Li Ziping hesitated and handed over the battery.Tang Xiu put the two batteries back into the grooves, turned them over, and the second hand started moving again.

"Hey, it's leftover power. The remote control and the clock are like this. The battery is low, but you can always go for a while after reinstalling it. It won't take long before it stops again." Li Ziping said indifferently: " The crew is not short of two batteries, so just replace them with new ones, so you don’t have to repeat the operation later.”

"No." Tang Xiu stared at the surface for a while, then turned it over and took out the battery.

"I remember that there is a toy store about 10 minutes away by car. You go to buy a small racing car like the one used by children, and you can choose the one that needs to be installed with two AA batteries."

"What are you doing?" Li Ziping's eyes widened, "Playing with toys?"

Jiang Qiao suddenly seemed to understand, and said in a low voice, "Do you want to see how much power is left in these two batteries? But...why?"

"Someone entered this room." Tang Xiu said softly, and glanced at Jiang Qiao, "We only left for a day, which is a bit too coincidental. What's more, that person didn't destroy or take anything away."

……

Li Ziping has always felt that his artists always have an inexplicable nagging temperament, and this time it is the same.He has been an agent for so many years, and it was the first time he went to buy toys for an artist.

So much so that when he finally came back with a small red "Ferrari" after more than an hour of tossing, his face was full of helplessness.

The small racing car was installed with batteries, put it on its own track, and soon began to run at high speed with a sizzling noise.Li Ziping took out the manual and said, "The motor consumes a lot of electricity. It says that two AA batteries can only be used for one and a half hours."

Tang Xiu nodded, "Yes."

Li Ziping put away the instruction manual and sighed: "Hey, it's good to be careful, but I think you're overthinking it. It's probably only 2 minutes before the battery dies."

"Really?" Tang Xiu swept him calmly, "Then let's take a look."

The words of the ancestors seemed to be born with the magical power of being fulfilled, and the little racing car ran on the track lap after lap, without stopping for a full 5 minutes.

"No way..." Li Ziping was dumbfounded, feeling his back getting hairy, "This is really weird."

"If I'm not mistaken, it can really run continuously for more than an hour." Tang Xiu looked at the small car, "Because if the battery in the clock is about to run out of power, there will be more than one day in the previous day or two. The slower the situation, but I didn't have it when I left the crew."

Jiang Qiao suddenly said, "Is it possible that the battery is loose?"

"No way." Tang Xiu smiled and turned the surface over, "It's stuck very tightly, and it has never been loosened in the past month. There was no earthquake or decoration, and it happened to be the day we left Loose? Too coincidental."

"So you're saying that someone came into your house, flipped through the script, and purposely pulled the battery out and left the watch at that moment."

"It doesn't have to be at that time." Tang Xiu said indifferently: "It may also be that it was deliberately adjusted to five o'clock in the afternoon."

Li Ziping's eyes widened, "My ancestor, this day is too scary, how can there be such a psychopath as an illegitimate fan? What's the purpose?"

Tang Xiu didn't make any comments when he heard the words, but turned to Jiang Qiao, "Is your way back to the set going well?"

"It's pretty smooth." Jiang Qiao smiled. "Today is very lucky. There are no traffic jams in the evening rush hour. Basically, the road is smooth."

"Did you see any suspicious people outside the crew?"

"No." Jiang Qiao paused, "I took a special look when I drove outside the set. They told me that there was an illegitimate meal hanging around recently, so I paid extra attention."

"Okay." Tang Xiu rubbed the center of his brows, "Maybe I'm thinking too much, it's just an ordinary illegitimate meal, not for you."

Jiang Qiao laughed when he heard the words, "How can there be an illegitimate meal director? Don't be too stressed, don't act alone these two days. Or make a mental preparation. As long as it is not completely unexpected, no one can beat you." .”

Li Ziping laughed out loud, "That's right."

The old ancestor sighed, "Let's do this first, maybe I'm thinking too much." He bent down and took out the soul-collecting flag from the suitcase while talking, and hung it back on the wall. Li Ziping smashed it Smacking his mouth, "I didn't say that, what is the special meaning of this thing to you? It looks like a god of dancing."

Tang Xiu glanced at him expressionlessly, "Don't talk nonsense."

"Ah?" Li Ziping thumped in his heart, thinking to himself, would it be possible to confess a piece of rag?However, he glanced at Tang Xiu's and Jiang Qiao's serious expressions, and then at the rag with weird shapes and patterns, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart, so he swallowed the words back.

"So how do you two have dinner? Shall I help you out to buy it?"

Just as Jiang Qiao was about to nod, Tang Xiu said, "No need, the two of us will go out to eat and take a walk around."

"Well, okay." Li Ziping said, "You've been a little weird lately. Don't you usually just want to stay in your room after getting off the plane and don't bother to move?"

"Let's go." Tang Xiu said lightly.

It was already getting dark, and there were only a few scattered fans outside the film crew, all of them were normal. Tang Xiu didn't even wear a mask, and when he met, he said hello generously and patiently signed autographs.

Seeing Jiang Qiao standing next to him, the fans suppressed the excitement in their voices and whispered, "You guys really appeared in the same frame."

The old ancestor hooked the corners of his lips in a good-tempered manner, "We just went out to eat together and chatted about filming."

"Oh! I know! I don't mean anything else." The fans quickly explained.She lowered her head and glanced at Tang Xiu's signature, "Your handwriting is too pretty, haven't you ever learned calligraphy?"

Tang Xiu smiled lightly, "That's right."

"Awesome. I will treasure it!"

"Yeah." Tang Xiu capped the pen cap and returned it to her. After saying goodbye, he was about to turn around and leave when he remembered something and turned around and said, "Don't come and wait for me again these two days. Safety."

"Ah?" The fans immediately asked understandingly: "Is there any illegitimate child?"

"Maybe."

"It's okay, we can catch them for you!" The little girl suddenly showed anger on her face, "We hate illegitimate children the most! Don't worry, I'll go back and communicate with the authorities, and send more young ladies to protect you!"

The old ancestor pursed his lips when he heard the words, and Jiang Qiao laughed unkindly beside him, waved his hands and said, "No need, no need, there are staff members and security guards on the set, you might get hurt by accident if you come, don't come in the next few days gone."

"Okay..." The fans sighed, and said to Tang Xiu, "Then, Mr. Tang, protect yourself."

"Don't worry." Tang Xiu nodded.

The fans looked at Jiang Qiao again, "Director Jiang, protect Mr. Tang well."

Jiang Qiao raised his eyebrows, "I'll ask the crew's security to pay more attention."

"Okay." The little girl sighed, thinking that Jiang Qiao didn't seem to be particularly concerned about Tang Xiu, and it seemed that those rumors were not true.

After all, one is a director and the other is an actor.

Watching her walk away, a certain director immediately burst into a smile, "I really want to protect their Tang Boss, but Tang Boss is too strong, I'd better wait to be protected."

Hearing this, Tang Xiu gave him a cold look, put his hands in his pockets, turned around and walked in the opposite direction, and casually said, "To be a soul collector, you must exercise your skills. The world is always changing, you have to make sure I will not be restricted by the body, after all, what the soul gatherer is doing is higher than the life of a mortal."

"I know." Jiang Qiao shrugged nonchalantly, "But I'm with my ancestors, and I have thighs to hug."

Tang Xiu suddenly stopped in his tracks, "Have you ever thought that we might be separated?"

"Separate?" Jiang Qiao also stopped, "What is separation?"

Tang Xiu paused, "Perhaps in thousands of years, we will get tired of each other, or take love seriously."

Jiang Qiao laughed when he heard this, and casually raised his hand to rub his ancestor's head, "If I get tired of being with you, or you get tired of being with me, then I will fall asleep."

"why?"

"Please." Jiang Qiao's expression was natural, "I don't have your collection habit. If it wasn't for being with the person I like for a long time, who would want to live forever? Thinking about it is tiring."

"..."

After being silent for a while, Tang Xiu thought to himself that he couldn't refute.

After walking a few loose fans outside the crew, it became even more empty. It rained during the day and the sky was cold, so no one wanted to come out.The two walked on the road for a while, Jiang Qiao saw that no one was around, so he took off his coat and put it on for his ancestor.

Tang Xiu gave him a look of what are you doing, Jiang Qiao smiled, "Don't let my baby catch a cold again, it's an old bone, it's really pitiful to work so hard every day."

Tang Xiu snorted and pulled up his coat, "What do you eat?"

"Go to the nearest shop for porridge."

"it is good."

Ever since he got to know his ancestor, Jiang Qiao felt that his life was getting better and better, and he entered the state of retirement in minutes, and what was even more frightening was that he was unexpectedly intoxicated by it.

He likes to watch Tang Xiu drink porridge quietly, as if he can see the appearance of this person thousands of years ago at a glance, and he can also imagine the appearance of this person thousands of years later.

The two stayed outside until almost nine o'clock before they were ready to go back. Before they reached the entrance of the crew, they saw a small group of people at the entrance from a distance.

Jiang Qiao said, "It's probably another group of fans. I only persuaded a few to leave just now, and they probably can't contact each other."

Seeing that Tang Xiu didn't speak, he said again: "I'll go and persuade them to leave, it's so unsafe at night, every little girl..."

As Jiang Qiao spoke, he was about to step forward, but before he could move his legs, Tang Xiu suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm.

"do not go."

"Ok?"

The old ancestor narrowed his eyes slightly in the night, his eyes stayed on the backs of those girls for a moment, and said in a low voice: "I think... this may be the group Zhang Zhongzhong mentioned."