Bu Tian Gang

Master, are you busy today?

Long Shen looked at the text message on the phone, but there was no movement for a while.

This is not the first time that Winter Solstice has sent him such boring text messages. Before the apprenticeship, he also sent them from time to time, and after the apprenticeship, there were more.Whether you eat or not, sleep or sleep, sometimes you see a flower with a different color from other flowers on the road, and if you eat a delicious dish, the other party can also type a paragraph of text.

Dong Zhi obviously knew that the content he sent was irrelevant, and he didn't expect Long Shen to suddenly change his sex. The meaning of text messages is to establish a connection. Even if one party doesn't reply, they can still see it. leave traces.

As time goes by, still waters run deep.

Long Shen would reply with a few sentences when he was free, but most of the time he would ignore it. This text message was no different from the previous ones.To his surprise, he hesitated for a few seconds on the detail of whether to reply or not.

The meeting was still going on, and he was rarely distracted for a while, put down his phone, and continued to concentrate on the meeting.

Half an hour later, during the intermission of the meeting, he finally returned a text message.

There have been a lot of meetings recently, so if you have questions about cultivation, you can call directly.

Busy is really busy, and there are really many meetings. No matter what he feels in his heart, Long Shen doesn't bother to lie and cheat.

Since the general direction of searching for the stele was set, the local bureaus have repeatedly reported and reported that this kind of action is like looking for a needle in a haystack. As the commander in chief, the general bureau must adjust the direction of the search at any time. Leaders of various countries will come to attend international conferences, and the Special Administrative Bureau cannot be idle.

What Winter Solstice didn't know was that not only Long Shen, but the entire General Administration was busy, and even Zong Ling and Zhang Xiankun, who had already been in a semi-retired state, were invited out of the mountain to help one or two, let alone Long Shen. A deputy director who is still in office.

After clicking send, Long Shen looked at the message and soon showed that the message was sent successfully.

He Yu's big head suddenly leaned over: "Boss, why have you been staring at your phone these two days?"

He had a gossipy face, trying to see the clues from Long Shen's immobile face.

"Broken in love? Ah no, you have never been in love. Where did you lose love? It's online dating? No, I said boss, you don't eat, drink, whore or gamble, and you don't have any bad habits, but as the saying goes, proper Relaxation helps to cope with greater stress, doesn't it?"

Long Shen: "Why haven't I heard this common saying?"

He Yu let out a sigh: "A master of Chinese culture named He Yu said that the point is not this, the point is that as your dear subordinate and companion, we also hope that you can relax. There are so many things recently, in case you are under too much pressure , suffocated or something, then we will have no leader?"

Long Shen: "Then what do you think?"

He Yu laughed and said, "In my opinion, it's best to come and play games. I'll lend you your full-level account to play, and I'll lend you my account. Let's exchange it, so that you can also experience leveling and playing equipment." How about fun?"

Long Shen: "Okay."

He Yu thought there was something wrong with his ears, and said in disbelief, "What? You agreed?"

Long Shen: "I will lend you an hour, which will be equivalent to [-]% of this month's bonus."

The corner of He Yu's mouth twitched: "Why don't you go and rob?"

Long Shen turned his head to look at him, and He Yu quickly covered his mouth and ran away, fearing that the monthly bonus would be retaliated against for "contradicting the leader".

"Have you noticed, the boss is a bit strange!"

During the break, Zhong Yuyi lay down on the conference table and took the opportunity to doze off, but He Yu's elbow suddenly woke him up.

"...What?" He looked back with sleepy eyes.

He Yu gossiped and said: "In the past, he never looked at the phone for more than five seconds, but this time he watched it for eight or nine seconds. With the boss's temperament, isn't this a strange thing?"

Zhong Yuyi didn't understand what was so strange about this, and said slowly: "It takes me 5 minutes to read a message before I finish it, the boss is much faster than me."

"...I can't tell you, go on to sleep!"

He Yu showed an expression of "I'm so smart, but mortals don't understand", he was too lazy to talk to him, waved his hand, leaned on crutches, and limped outside to play games.

Hurry up and play for a while before the meeting starts, an inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold is hard to buy him to upgrade!

……

The afternoon passed quickly, the efficiency of the winter solstice was good, and the report was almost finished, just need to reconsider the words used at the beginning and the end.

Although the house is old, the light is good. The leaves outside the window cast mottled shadows on the table, swaying like a young man's heart ready to move.

There is almost no autumn on the southern coast, and it has passed directly from summer to winter. At this moment, there are still a lot of short-sleeved streets, and the old air conditioners in the room are also whistling, making noise that cannot be ignored.

He stopped typing, stretched his waist, and planned to stay in the hotel for one more night today, and then look for a house tomorrow.

Originally wanting to call Long Shen, he turned his finger in the address book, and he dialed Yan Nuo's number instead.

The phone was connected quickly, but Yan Nuo still had that hurried and impatient voice.

"Hey, what's the matter!"

Winter Solstice: "Brother Yan, is there anything you need to help with? I have nothing to do now, so I can go there!"

Yan Nuo: "If you have nothing to do, just rest. There are quite a lot of people here. I don't need you for the time being. If you have a heart, go and play by yourself!"

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for his response.

What do you mean go play by yourself?Winter Solstice was speechless, but the other party made it clear that he didn't want to participate, and refused to tell where he was.

Winter Solstice also knows that no matter where he goes, newcomers are the most unwelcome ones, they don’t know anything, they have to ask everything, they are not familiar with the situation, and they often have troubles. When he was working in a game company before, he didn’t like it. Bringing a newcomer, if you speak lightly, the other party will not understand, and if you speak too harshly, it may even make people hold a grudge.

But when I become that newcomer who is hated and guarded everywhere, it doesn't feel so pleasant.

Not in the mood to finish the report, Dong Zhi closed the document, intending to do it tomorrow, so he turned to the social networking site.

I haven't had time to update the manga series these days. The latest message on my account was a few days ago. There are already thousands of comments under it, most of which are not nutritious. One of them caught his attention.

She left a message saying that the stories in the comics are very thrilling, and said that she is now running a hotel, which was left to her by her relatives.The hotel also often encounters strange things, whether it is staff or tourists, but the business of the hotel has always been very good, so good that she herself thinks it is amazing.

There were a lot of comments on this message, everyone was laughing, some were joking, some thought she was talking nonsense, and some said that the hotel was haunted and suggested that she put some anti-evil things.

I have seen many comments like this before the Winter Solstice, and the words are strange and confusing, but the more strange things that cannot be explained by science, the more interested many people are. The development of the Internet has made the interaction of these information faster, and the comics of the Winter Solstice are serialized It belongs to the genre of urban fantasy and supernatural, and there are naturally such readers gathered below.

However, this reader speaks clearly and clearly, it doesn't look like she made up anything, and although she didn't explain where she is, judging from the description, Winter Solstice has an intuition that what the other party is talking about should be Lucheng.

He sent a private message and got a quick reply.

The other party didn't seem to expect that the manga author would send her a message in person, and she was so excited that she was incoherent. From the tone of her voice, she looked like a young girl. The winter solstice guess was also correct. It was indeed in Lucheng, and coincidentally, the hotel Not far from where he is.

Dongzhi said that he happened to be in Lucheng during this time, and asked her if it was convenient to meet, and he wanted to learn more about the hotel.

The other party was originally his loyal fan, and when he heard that he could meet his idol, he naturally agreed, and the two made an appointment at a restaurant not far from the other party's hotel.

Considering that wandering around the street with a sword on his back is really eye-catching, Dong Zhi thought of a way. On the way to the appointment, he stopped by the piano store and bought a guqin case. After putting the sword in, the extra space can be used to store Those cinnabar talisman papers kill two birds with one stone.

Sure enough, when he walked outside with the piano case on his back, many strange eyes suddenly disappeared.

As soon as I arrived at the restaurant, I found a seat at random and sat down. Dong Zhi saw a long-haired girl in a T-shirt and shorts rushing in, looking around, as if looking for someone.

"He Jia?" He raised his head to signal, and called out tentatively.

Sure enough, the other party turned his head, showing a look of surprise and surprise, and walked quickly.

"You, hello, may I ask that you are Da Dong Dong Qiang?" The girl did not expect that the painter himself was such a delicate and elegant boy, and she was suddenly surprised that the reality far surpassed the illusion.

Dong Zhi got up and smiled, "I'm Dong Dong Qiang, hello, I take the liberty to invite you out, I'm really sorry."

He Jia hurriedly said that it doesn't matter: "I'm just idle too!"

Winter Solstice handed the menu to her, and asked the lady to order in a very gracious manner. After the waiter came to place the order, he went to the main topic: "I am looking for some new serial materials recently, and I would like to ask you to leave a message before, saying that something strange happened in my hotel ,is that true?"

He Jia nodded: "It's true, the hotel wasn't originally mine, but a relative's. She has gone abroad and settled down, and she won't be coming back anytime soon, but it won't be possible to dispose of the hotel anytime soon, so she just entrusted me with it." I didn’t replace the original staff, everything was as it was, and I occasionally went to check it out. But it’s really strange to say that, strange things often happen in that place.”

In fact, with the popularity of the winter solstice comics, he himself has become one of the Internet celebrities, but unlike those accounts that rely on showing their faces to attract fans, he attracts readers purely with his style of painting and content. The readership is very stable. Everyone I also privately guessed his age and appearance. Some fans are old players of the game "Great Wilderness", but no one has seen him. They only know that he is probably a young man. He Jia never thought that he would be the first person to see him in real life. The fans of the show were a little excited for a while, and wished they could take a photo together and post it on the Internet to prove that she had dinner with Dong Dong Qiang. Naturally, she knew everything about the winter solstice and talked endlessly.

For her, not only seeing the male god with her own eyes, but also the appearance and conversation of the male god is also in line with the tailor-made image in her mind, which is a double surprise.

Winter Solstice listened very carefully: "Can you tell me more about it?"

He Jia said: "Some waiters reported that they had seen black shadows drifting past when they were on vigil at night, but when they got closer, they found nothing, and the surveillance did not show anyone passing by. There are also residents, It is said that in the middle of the night, the faucet will turn on by itself inexplicably, and some people say that they hear someone singing and talking in their ears, and there are also ghosts pressing the bed."

She lowered her voice and looked mysterious: "Later, I asked the original owner of the hotel, who was my aunt, and she asked me to make regular offerings on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. Don't worry about anything else."

Seeing that there was no response from the winter solstice, He Jia had no choice but to continue: "But the strange thing is that my hotel business is very good. In order to attract business, I asked someone to make an official website and put it on it. As a result, there were almost no advertisements, but the hotel was booked through the Internet. The customers are full almost every day, and the supply exceeds demand during holidays.”

Winter Solstice: "What did your aunt ask you to offer? Did you do what she said?"

He Jia: "I don't know either. She asked me to vacate a room and not allow guests to stay in it. Then, on the altar table inside, I would offer fruits all year round. Just change it once a week. I did as I did, but there were still strange things. Pass."

The winter solstice pondered deeply: "Has anyone died?"

"No...ah no, once!"

The slender fingers rested on the white chin casually, and the other hand tapped unconsciously on the table. He Jia felt that the other party was not only beautiful, but also had an inexplicable taste. He was a little dazed for a while, but he realized it after a while .

"I heard from my aunt that before the fire, there used to be a hotel there, and then the owner was burned to death in a big fire, and it took a few years to rebuild the current hotel. Then, once, a tenant cut his wrist in the room Suicide was discovered too late, and it was not rescued. I heard that it seemed to be due to feelings. But this is the only one, and no one was killed afterwards."

Speaking of this, He Jia was a little distressed.

"Actually, it used to be normal, but recently employees often get sick, and many residents are forgetful. I don't want to stay there. The strange thing is that the business there has always been very good. Last time I thought I asked the master to have a look, but my aunt and grandma firmly opposed it, so I had to give up in the end."

"How long have you had that hotel?"

"It's only been in the past six months. I asked my aunt, when she was in charge of the hotel, there was no frequent illness of staff and guests."

The two chatted for a while, the dishes came out one after another, and the topic changed direction, talking about the local customs.

He Jia heard that Winter Solstice had just arrived, and enthusiastically offered to take him around. Although Winter Solstice was very exciting, he had to find a house to stay during this time, so he had to decline.

"Boom boom..."

Dongzhi smiled and said: "Don't call me big, it's quite a mouthful, my surname is Dong, Dong Dong in Dong, just call me Brother Dong."

"So this is the origin of your screen name Dongdongqiang!" He Jia realized it all at once, and asked again, "Brother Dong, are you not playing games now?"

She is not only a comic fan of Winter Solstice, but also a game player of "The Great Wilderness". It can be said that she watched Winter Solstice walk on the road of painting.

"I won't do it." The Special Administration Bureau's status is very special, and it's not easy to reveal it to ordinary people. Dongzhi made an excuse at random, "Now I'm helping out in a friend's company, and painting is a leisure hobby."

He Jia showed regret: "Isn't that a pity?"

The winter solstice laughed: "What's the pity, isn't it better that the things you like can be used as hobbies instead of tools for eating?"

He Jia thought about it too, and then laughed.

This meal, He Jia ate very happily.

In her impression, male painters are generally nerds, not good at speech, and unkempt. She saw some male painters' photos on the Internet or went to sign sales before, which deepened this feeling. She did not expect that the winter solstice was an exception.What's even more rare is that the other party is very polite and gentlemanly. He asked her to order food, and took the initiative to pay the bill while she was in the bathroom, so as not to leave her any discomfort.Even if it hasn't reached the point of falling in love at first sight, it is still a very honorable thing for a girl to be invited to dinner by a handsome guy.

After dinner, Dong Zhi asked her: "Are the rooms in your hotel full? If not, I would like to book a room for tonight."

He Jia was stunned for a moment, with a look of perplexity on his face: "I asked when I came out, but there are still two rooms available today, how about I take you there during the day?"

Afraid of being misunderstood by the winter solstice, she said again: "Brother Dong, I'm a little scared to go to that place at night."

Dongzhi smiled and said, "That's okay, you take me to the door, and I'll go in by myself."

Facing the charm of the handsome guy, she gritted her teeth and said with a sigh of relief: "Forget it, I'll accompany you in for a night!"

Winter Solstice chuckled: "Just take me in, you don't have to accompany me."

"It's okay!" Who made you look good.He Jia added something silently in his heart, and then remembered something, and said embarrassingly, "Brother Dong, I don't mind if you use the hotel incident as a comic material, but can you hide the city and hotel information when the time comes?"

Only then did Winter Solstice know that He Jia thought that he wanted to go to the hotel out of pure curiosity and wanted to collect comic materials. He thought this was a good excuse, and he could still act like this when it was inconvenient to reveal his identity in the future.

"Of course, even if it is put in the comics in the future, I will never disclose relevant information."

He was indeed very interested in that hotel, especially the strange incident that He Jia mentioned. It would be fine if the strange incident did not lead to any bad consequences, but since the staff and guests would often get sick, it meant that it had already affected the lives of ordinary people. It is the jurisdiction of the Special Administration Bureau.

Unlike other departments, the Special Administration Bureau does not always sit in an office and wait for things to come to them.Even though he was new here, Yan Nuo and the others wouldn't let him interfere in the work, but that didn't mean he couldn't take the initiative to attack.

After the two of them finished their meal and rested for a while to digest, He Jia brought Dong Zhi to the door of the hotel.

The hotel is located in the old town, and there are some well-preserved arcades of the Republic of China nearby. There are plants planted on the left and right in front of the door, and the flowers are swaying. It must be more beautiful during the day.The hotel has three floors. It adopts a combination of Chinese and Western architectural features. It should be imitated to blend in with the nearby old buildings. However, this feature will indeed attract many tourists.

But when Dong Zhi stood at the door and looked at the words "Long Hai Hotel" on the wooden signboard next to the hotel door, the footsteps that I wanted to step into stopped abruptly, as if the brake button was suddenly pressed on my body, abrupt and caught off guard .

"Brother Dong?" Seeing that he was motionless, He Jia asked in confusion.

If you came to a house, what perception would make you feel bad?

Is it the eerie house that makes people not want to go in?

No, it's because when you see the gate, you have a strong desire to go in and live there, you can't wait, you feel urgent.

This feeling is the strangest.

The winter solstice is now fighting against such instincts, rationally holding back the body's reaction like compulsion.

In his eyes, the door is like a magnet, with the ability to suck people in.

"Every time you come to the door, do you have a strange feeling?" He asked He Jia.

"What strange feeling?" He Jia was puzzled.

"I really want to go in, like, there is something inside that attracts you." Winter Solstice can't describe this feeling very accurately, because it's just an invisible force, illusory and without substance.

But He Jia shook his head: "No, actually I don't really like coming here, but the feeling you mentioned, I heard from guests, they said that they wanted to go to a nearby island to find a hotel to live in, but when they passed by here , I was drawn in somehow.”

Winter Solstice is a practitioner, so he will observe consciously, and he can better control his will, but most ordinary people can't do it, and they don't think deeply about the weirdness.

"Let's go." He said nothing, and walked in together with He Jia.

The furnishings in the hotel intentionally create a sense of history. You can see a combination of Chinese and Western styles everywhere. The stairs are also in the European style of the Republic of China. There are quite a lot of guests. When they went in during the winter solstice, they happened to see two groups of guests checking out. , and then there was another group waiting to move in. It can be seen that, as He Jia said, the business is very good.

Winter Solstice observed their expressions carefully, and saw that among the two groups of people who were about to check out, there were old and young, their complexions were not very good, and the children were still coughing, but they looked around and looked at the furnishings in the hotel, showing that they were reluctant to leave. She's expression.

"Hello, auntie, are you going to check out?" He took a step forward.

The middle-aged aunt who took her family out for a trip nodded and said: "We checked out the day before yesterday and were leaving, but we lived here so comfortably that we couldn't bear to leave, so we stayed for two more days."

"Comfortable? Is the service attitude good?" Dong Zhi blinked and smiled, "I booked for one night. If it's really that good, I plan to renew."

The aunt smiled and said: "It's not really, I can't tell. Anyway, I feel lazy after coming in, and I can have good dreams every night. Since I lived here, it really feels like I'm on vacation. We don't want to go anywhere. , I just want to sleep enough here."

Winter Solstice's heart skipped a beat, and he said with a smile, "Then I'll book two nights too, so I can feel like I'm on vacation."

When the guests were here, He Jia couldn't say anything. As soon as they left, she said, "Brother Dong, you can just stay for one night, and you don't need to register. I will tell them."

Winter Solstice shook his head: "How can I do that, you open the door to do business, there is no reason for you to work for nothing."

Seeing what He Jia wanted to say, he said first, "Don't worry, I can reimburse you."

He Jia didn't insist either, thinking it would be a big deal to give him a free bill when he checked out.

"I want to visit around, is it convenient?" Dongzhi asked.

"Of course, I'll take you there." He Jia told the front desk to reserve a room for himself tonight, and took Dongzhi upstairs.

The hotel has only three floors, and the two of them walked up the stairs. The corridors are brightly lit, with paintings and flowers on both sides, and the windows are made of fired multicolored glass, which is in line with the small qualifications of the city. There are iron bars outside the windows. There are sunflowers of various colors planted on it, light and bright, and the sea can be seen from a distance. Although it is located in the old city, it is not surprising that there will be an endless stream of guests because of these careful arrangements.

Winter Solstice raised his own question, and He Jia said, "If that's the case, it's fine. There are many tourists in Lucheng all year round, but there are fewer tourists in autumn and winter. Generally speaking, every hotel will be full and unsatisfactory. , but my place is full almost every day, and occasionally there are vacant rooms, which will be booked out soon. The problem is that I rarely advertise, and I have never cooperated with travel websites to promote, but people who book rooms online The guests said that they originally wanted to book another hotel, but for some reason, they found it here, and they thought it was good, so they booked it.”

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but said: "Business is good, of course I am very happy, but this is too strange!"

Winter Solstice looked around the room in the corridor and asked, "Your aunt told you not to live in the room, which is specially used for worship, can I go and see it?"

He Jia nodded, and said in a low voice, "I don't believe in evil, but it feels weird to enter that room. Let's take a look at it later and come out. Don't stay too long."

The winter solstice naturally agreed.

The author has something to say:

Winter Solstice never expected that he would become a male god in the eyes of others.

The nutrient solution watered by crab babies to Longju and Xiaodongsolstice, mua~~

Let's put a (a small paragraph that has nothing to do with the main text) as a bonus.

At that time, the Special Administrative Bureau was still affiliated with the National Security Bureau, and had to go to the National Security Bureau every time it was dealt with. It was always inconvenient to get in and out, and it was even more troublesome to apply for funds.The Special Administrative Bureau has a special profession, and demons and ghosts are highly vigilant, so what if they accidentally hurt ordinary people?Once, the former director Zhang Xiankun saw Lanzhou ramen and Shaxian snacks all over the street. He was inspired and thought about it. He disguised the offices in various places as restaurants with braised chicken and rice. Worry about not having enough money.

Later... there is no later.

Because watching Chaosheng joined the job.