East

this night.

In Longjiang City, it was as if some god in the clouds was crossing the catastrophe. It thundered all night towards the buildings below.

An electronic tower with a blue light spot straddles the modern city. As currents drop from the edge of the boundary, it looks like a shattered shroud that produces spider webs.

At dawn, there are motor vehicles rushing to work in the city.

On the main roads across the city's moat and river, there are morning buses with No. 23 and No. 49 on the road one after another. Office workers and student parties start their day's work one after another.

In the traffic lights, people pass by. Located at the corner of the bicycle lane next to the old community of Sanchang, an old battery car and a figure with a helmet on the car also drove through the city center early in the morning. Turned into the city Somewhere in an old neighborhood.

At first glance, this figure looks like a recent college student rushing to work, wearing an unpressed suit, carrying a satchel with a Charmander pendant on his back, and running out of the car carelessly.

And the place he came in with his eMule looked very dilapidated at first glance.

On the left is the vegetable market, and on the right is the elementary school.At the door, an old guard with a hat covering his face remained motionless in broad daylight. There was an office building at the bottom of the red railing at the front door.

They waited and parked the car downstairs, which resembles some government offices that can be seen everywhere in the world.

Wearing a helmet, this young man who came to work on a broken battery car first put on a satchel,? Carrying a magic wand, rushed all the way to the second floor of the office like clocking in.

"08:30...08:30,? This unlucky alarm clock, my salary card, my provident fund,? My God and Ksitigarbha, please help me..."

To say the least, this young man with the demon pestle and a black satchel raised above his head is quite familiar at first glance.

Just looking at the appearance of the little hooligan advanced young man who has not changed for seven or eight years, and the appearance of standing at the elevator entrance and pressing down hurriedly, and then scratching his hair frizzy, it is indeed the same as the former boy king of the No. [-] Middle School of the Third Factory. Xu Wang's classmate is exactly the same.

In front of him, his hair was shaped like a chicken coop, and his expression of cowardice kept begging God, which was basically the same as when he was a child.

And as expected, when the elevator opened, the young man in Jiwotou went in and turned around quickly, revealing the work ID on his neck.

[Eighteenth Floor of Yinsi Office Affiliated to Ksitigarbha King, Longjiang City]

[Internship errand 00876—Wang Xu]

These two lines of red printed work cards directly explain what this old building in front of me, which seems to have disappeared in the modern world, and this young man named Wang Xu are doing.The so-called yin errands are the low-level civil servants who work for the underworld. Among them, those who are intern yin errands and who are responsible for managing the household registration of urban ghosts are the lowest-level personnel.

It is said in the ancient Buddhist scriptures that hell is divided into eighteen levels, which is the place where all living beings suffer after making mistakes in the legend. In Sanskrit, the eighteen levels of hell do not refer to the upper and lower levels of space, but in time and content.

Especially when it comes to time.In the eighteen levels of hell, the length of time for suffering is determined by the severity of the crimes committed during one's lifetime.Each level of hell is 18 times more miserable and twice as long as the previous level of hell. It is full of punishments such as killing by weapons, fire and heat, severe cold and severe freezing, and large pits and valleys.When I arrived at the No.[-] hell, the suffering was beyond description, and the date of the prison could not be calculated.

Therefore, the Yin Division is not only a prison where all beings are imprisoned if they make mistakes, but also a place to forget about the reincarnation of Buddhas, demons, humans, ghosts, and demons in Buddhism.

As a low-level civil servant who is not considered a big name in the Yin Division, Wang Xu, who has just arrived, is dressed in a suit and jeans. Although it is not memorable, he is a cheerful and sunny young man.

In particular, his eyes were sparkling with inspiration, and when he smiled, he was very friendly.

But it is such a contemporary three-good young man, a handsome sunshine boy who is routinely assigned among fresh college students. He has only been employed as a mortal for a week. Sometimes I have to be scolded by those bad-tempered monsters and ghosts.

It is said that this mortal boy is a good-for-nothing.Not only does he not know how to fight, but he also does not have the three methods practiced by Buddhist disciples. He is also a little born afraid of ghosts, and will only shout for help when he encounters troubles.

When he came, apart from passing the exam, there was no acquaintance ghost to help him.In addition, this day-to-day cowardly appearance and the showy brain that eats nothing is worthwhile, so his boss has always only asked him to be responsible for registering household registration for ghosts, and there are some unskilled workers who pay taxes for subsistence allowances and help the poor. content work.

Most of the other errands in his department also regarded this mortal boy with no background and incompetence as a newcomer who can be ordered around.

And this group of demons and ghosts who are uniformly sent to petition regularly by the underworld, like the household registration managers, are mostly little monsters who occupy the residences of mortals and use them as their own caves in various communities, properties and unit buildings in Longjiang City.

This type of work is not very dangerous, except that the salary is low, the promotion is slow, and you have to go to hell every night.

Because demons, ghosts, dead people and ghosts need caves.Even in modern society, this principle remains the same, so correspondingly, underworld-based soldiers and crab generals like Yinchai began to recruit civil servants from all living beings in the three realms.

And he just got in the exam a few years ago, and it was because he took the exam three times that he got into the most leisurely, most comfortable, and the least violent Yaodong household registration office.

Thinking the same way, the intern himself, Xiao Wang, was out of breath all the way, and stopped in the elevator without his feet.

But the broken elevator in this old building is just useless, and half of his life was almost lost this early in the morning. After the elevator number finally jumped to -18, the kid knocked open the elevator door and got stuck at the last moment. A work permit was pressed against the gate at once——

["Drip—Eighteenth floor of the underworld office affiliated to the Ksitigarbha King, Longjiang City, No. 00876, internship Yincha, Wang Xu."]

"Yeah! But, it's not late!"

When the gloomy female ghost's voice sounded from the red sanskrit punch card, it meant that this kid Wang Xu was not late for work one day this week.

The black-haired young man with one hand against the wall was lazily relieved to see this like an unreliable good-for-nothing, but he couldn't bear the sad working environment and treatment that he, as a contemporary grassroots civil servant, straightened up and stood up. I want to go back to the office and eat breakfast first.

Last night, Wang Xu, who stayed up all night for unknown reasons and almost died, was tired and stood with one hand on the wall like a dog. The door to the office with the word Samsara was opened.

【"Wang Xu, why are you almost late for work? Director Niu and Director Ma just came to you with something to ask you to show them this month's Longjiang City Yaodong household registration form and the ghosts' low-guarantee certificates, or should I say It only works when you go to the grassroots.”]

The person who said this was a woman in white who floated out with her hair hanging down her face.

This faceless ghost sister with a haunted BGM'~~~' has a pale face, a pale foundation and a big bloody mouth, which fits the atmosphere of the [-]th floor hell office, and also makes the young Wang Xu While being startled early in the morning, he rubbed his nose and smiled,

"Oh, Sister Zhenzi, I, I was delayed by some personal matters last night... I, I will go in and hand in the materials right away! You go ahead, you did a good job of makeup today! Did you eat early!"

【"I haven't eaten yet, hey, except for you who get off work at six o'clock and can sleep before twelve o'clock, as long as they are ghosts, everyone who works for Ksitigarbha worked overtime last night."]

She was still close to this new mortal boy, Sister Sadako resentfully shook her long white sleeves, covered her bright red mouth, and floated over to give him a written document from the underworld.

Upon hearing this, the boy Wang Xu pretended to be surprised, and hurriedly stood in front of the office building with a concerned gossip and went to the female ghost: "Oh, what's wrong? Has something serious happened?"

【"Hey, the number one Bodhisattva of Yujiao, who was imprisoned in the eighteenth hell for a year and was admitted by the Ksitigarbha himself to betray Buddhism, ran away last night."】

The female ghost sister gossips with the handsome guy in the same office.

【"I heard that the notorious devil also beat 35 Buddha Tree King Bodhisattvas and captured the first princess of Tantric Buddhism. Furious, they all ran to find the important person in the Yin Division... You said that these Buddhas are always trying to do something for us little devils because of personal grievances. Oh, by the way, there is said to be a mysterious person behind this arrest warrant. He is an accomplice, and I don’t know where he got the ability to beat up the apprentice of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, Xianguang Fozi, and even stole something, if he is caught, he will probably be hit by a thunderbolt.”]

"Hey! Let me tell you, last night the whole Longjiang City was blown by evil winds. So that's how it is!"

But it was also the female ghost's words, Wang Xu leaned against the wall first, listened with his ears up, and slapped his thigh with a gossiping expression, and "sorrowful" with her.

"But this is too frightening, hey! The lives of all living beings in the three realms are not guaranteed! These demon Bodhisattvas in the Desire Realm are really a headache. The king of Earth Store must catch that demon back, yes! , and the one in the back, we have to catch them too!"

【"Who says it's not, this group of Da Luo gods don't know when they will finish their work, and they will delay the beauty sleep of us beautiful female ghosts. Let's not talk about it, go in and submit the form report ..."]

"Okay, hey, thank you, Sister Sadako, I will trouble you to ask for leave and clock in every time, or if I am free on Saturday, I will ask you to go out to watch a movie..."

【"Go, you are so bad, I will stop messing around with you young guys...】

This flirting with the big sister of the female ghost, Wang Xu, the stinky boy, made a joke at the office door, and he disappeared for no reason last night.The fact that he was almost late early in the morning was covered up.

Seeing that he was carrying the bag on his back, and the magic pestle, and by the way, with a document in his arm, he knocked on the door and entered the office of Yama, the Ten Temples of the Underworld, which is indeed a regular government department.Inside, the bull-headed horse-faced leader with crooked mouth and slanted eyes was already sitting in the office waiting for his subordinate with tucked arms.

Seeing this, Wang Xu arched his back, waved his hands, walked inside and smiled obsequiously, before he dared to drag a stool and say something.

"Dear Director Ma, Director Niu, I'm here to hand over materials to you again."

Sure enough, as soon as he entered, the ox-headed horse inside patted the table and started again.

"Xiao Wang, Wang Dasheng, Wang Gaocai! In my opinion, you must be elected as the most useless and least capable errand in our Demon Jiang Division!"

"As a newcomer who squeezed 400 million ghost quotas this year to be admitted to our Jiangma Division, you have no background in your family and are not very capable. You must cherish this kind of teaching and enlightenment for our general leader Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. , in charge of job opportunities for the reincarnation of all living beings. You must know that our Longjiang City is the place of the hell of the Yin Division. The work of the government department is not for three shifts to sit in the office and play with mobile phones, do you understand! This is to be responsible to all sentient beings!"

Hearing this, Wang Xu, who put his hands on his knees, rubbed his hands and nodded with a smile in the entire spooky leadership office.

"Listen, I understand. The main thing is that my family has been busy lately. My aunt gave birth to a baby. The baby is not feeling well recently. As a relative, I have to prepare and show the appearance of a young man working... Director, I, I Make sure you go to work tonight and don’t play with your mobile phone...The box of high-end moon cakes and 800 yuan red envelope shopping coupons I gave you on the Ghost Festival last month..."

Niu Tau and Ma Nian became angry together: "What moon cakes! What red envelope shopping vouchers! Only your relatives are the only ones! This month is when my aunt will have a baby, and next month will be when my uncle will get married, right? I warn you Wang Xu, you young people, don't just bribe your superiors What if this kind of thing gets to the top! The fair treatment that should be given will definitely be implemented to every errant, this is the credibility of our government department!"

Wang Xu quickly shook his hand at this: "Okay, okay, then director, I will withdraw first, you two must have a happy Hungry Ghost Festival this time, and the 800 yuan shopping voucher for moon cakes is my tribute to you... As for the leave! "

Niutou Mamian: "I know it's not good to get out! Hurry up and continue to work hard for Ksitigarbha! You are young, and you are not motivated all day long! How can you subdue demons for sentient beings! Become a Buddha as soon as possible!"

The unreasonable and serious criticism from my own director gave Xiao Wang a headache and helplessness.

However, as a grassroots worker, he really can't ask for leave, so he has nothing to do.I could only spend the whole day in the office of the underworld, and typed out every single word on my broken computer for this week's entry into the Yokai Cave household registration.

When he got off work, he swayed lazily and went downstairs to pick up his battery car, but when he looked at his phone, it was almost evening.Seeing that it was getting late, he quickly put on his briefcase and ran, got on the little e-Donkey and headed home.

On the way home, Wang Xu went to a supermarket near the community. After putting on his bag and taking off his glasses, the black-haired young man took out a folded piece of paper from his trouser pocket wallet. The blurry but gorgeous handwriting written by the pen is also revealed.

【1. Do not eat radish】

【2. Pollen allergy】

【3. Drink milk every night】

The first three items on this note made Wang Xu write down the golden lights with his fingers.

Waiting to buy four or five bags of things according to the ones written on a label paper that I don't know who gave it.Among them were snacks, milk powder, and a big rabbit doll before we hugged them back together.

However, Wang Xu, who had returned with a full load, drove his own battery car and dangled back to his dormitory in the third factory, which was the old house left by his father's unit, with a pile of everything prepared for unknown people.

What Wang Xu never expected was that there was already a red convertible waiting downstairs in his house.

Not only that, on that ostentatious red convertible car, the red-haired figure with his hands folded against the hood and his back turned was so familiar that Wang Xu paused for a moment, and then He intuited who the other party was and exchanged glances with that person before he got stuck.

The two looked at each other.Wang Xu looked like an idiot, and the red-haired young man with a face as thick as a mixed race and a rose-like temperament narrowed his eyes coldly when he saw this.

"Are you a badass, what are you doing staring at me without saying hello, you haven't seen what I look like."

The murderous look in this tone, this irritable character, it is impossible to say that Wang Xu does not know who he is. After all, the two of them are genuinely related by blood, and they grew up together. When he bumped into it, he immediately went up to him like a little follower with a plastic bag in his hand.

Wang Xu: "Lie Lie Lie...Young Master Lie, have you returned to the human world from Lingshan? Or have you just finished your work on the first floor of the Underworld!"

When he heard the call, Gu Lie's expression turned even worse. He held up the phone that was almost crushed in his hand and continued coldly: "I've called almost a hundred times since last night, but there is a person who can Didn't call me back, and didn't go home during the period, are you asking me if I didn't call you now?"

Wang Xu: "..."

These words immediately exposed the fact that he didn't go back to his home last night.

Wang Xu, who is casual and free, who is used to being teased by others, probably didn't expect that he would come back without saying hello this time, and would personally block the door of his house, go up and hug the red-haired young man's shoulder affectionately, laughing and laughing Made trouble with him.

However, the unilateral 'interrogation' between the two cousins ​​has only just begun.

Because of Wang Xu's strange behavior in front of Gu Lie, it was impossible for the red-haired young man waiting at his door to let him go easily.

Wang Xu: "I, didn't I go out with my friends last night! I'm sorry, my dear cousin Lie Lie, we haven't played games all night together for thirteen days, I miss you so much Already!"

But Gu Lie is not a fool, he persisted and asked: "Going out and staying overnight? Do you think I still don't answer the phone?"

Wang Xu: "Because the road is too far, it is difficult to rush back from the west at night."

Gu Lie: "Your friend is Monkey King, and you are Zhu Bajie? You two made an appointment to go to the West to learn scriptures in the middle of the night?"

Wang Xu was choked, and quickly rubbed his nose to make amends and smiled: "No, no, this is just a metaphor, a metaphor! I have always had such a sense of humor since I was a child, don't you know that haha."

Gu Lie: "Then you've been living alone all this time, why are you buying so many things all of a sudden?"

Wang Xu: "It's not that after I successfully passed the [-]th floor internship, I worked overtime every day, and my appetite increased, so I ate a little more."

Gu Lie: "Then do you know that Gu Donglai escaped from the [-]th floor of hell yesterday?"

Wang Xu patted his forehead as if hearing the end of the world: "What! My God, there is such a thing in this world, I really don't know it, it just happened last night! After you graduated, you worked at the first floor of the Reincarnation Department, and your bosses were still Ksitigarbha and Tree King Bodhisattva, so you must have been busy all night because of this matter!"

Gu Lie: "Wang Xu, if you talk to me in this opera-like tone again, I will arrest you immediately, and hand you over to the Buddha for conviction just like Gu Donglai, that heinous demon in the world of desire. Do you believe it?" .”

Wang Xu: "..."

Gu Lie's threat and interrogation of official business mixed with personal matter immediately blocked Wang Xu's mouth full of running trains.

The atmosphere of the two young people was not good. Gu Lie even got out of his car at once, took out the palm in his pocket and propped it on his car, let his red hair fall and approached him, his face was cold and he looked down at the black man. Send youth way,

"I should have warned you, since you and I have become the people of the underworld, you are not allowed to have any contact with that person, otherwise I will definitely be rude to you."

"He has committed a felony in Buddhism now, and has so many innocent lives on his hands. With your current magic power, if you fall into his hands, you can only die without a burial."

"You and I should both understand that the only uncle between us has always been the Peacock King of Lingshan who taught us the principles of human beings and didn't believe in personal destiny, not the current demon Bodhisattva who is blinded by greed, commits all kinds of evil, betrays his homeland, and follows the Lord of the Desire Realm .”

"If I want to cover up his mistakes just because he is our relative, I can't do it, because good and evil have their own distinctions. Buddhism does not allow me to call a person who obeys the devil uncle, he wants to No one can control this path, but the two of us are unshakable. If you dare to communicate with him in private, or if you have no distinction between good and evil in your heart, and you still use the power of the underworld to help him at this time, I will definitely, absolutely in the future I won't talk to you anymore, do you understand?"

"..."

These words were said by the red-haired young man who was already the first-level Buddha protector in the underworld.

The golden-red eyes looked at the kid's playful smiley face in front of him, and he almost grabbed his collar and poured these words into his ears.

But Wang Xu, who was standing motionless, felt the flames on the red-haired young man's body that had almost materialized, but he didn't say a word, and then suddenly grabbed his neck and stretched out an arm, and suddenly rushed into himself. The cousin gave him a bear hug in his arms.

This hug was exactly the same as when he was a child, which made Gu Lie, who was talking to him seriously, wanted to get rid of him, but Wang Xu insisted on strangling his neck and hugging him, smiling very affectionately, and started to tickle him.

Wang Xu: "If you don't want to kiss one, don't be angry."

Gu Lie: "Get lost."

Wang Xu: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, you won't be handsome when you are angry. Handsome guy, Prince Benji, Xiaohong from Lingshan, my cutest little cousin, the dream lover of millions of girls, I will always be your little brother, okay?" good……"

This series of non-stop nicknames for rainbow farts is unbearable for anyone.Because of Wang Xu's incomparable teasing by the devil, Gu Lie's serious face was destroyed in an instant. The two young people who had almost quarreled just now had a scuffle. admonish him,

"Go away, believe it or not, I will hit you every time."

"I know, I know, don't be so serious when you are young, I know you are very busy, we haven't played games together for thirteen days, come on, let me treat you to ice cream, I was just in the supermarket Bought it, luckily it didn't melt, and then we can play games together..."

"I'm very busy, so I don't have time to play games with you. You should also work hard for me. Also, remember to turn on the phone next time you go out. Longjiang City is very dangerous recently, and people from Tantric Buddhism will not leave easily."

"Okay, okay, okay, we have a lot of the most handsome Lie Shao, please forgive me, I promise! I will wait for your call every day when I turn on the phone, and if there is any trouble, I will call you as soon as possible..."

After being coaxed by this stinky brat Wang Xu, Gu Lie's distasteful face turned slightly better.The two also work for the Yin Division, but the talents are very different from the other young people. Gu Liecai and this guy sat downstairs with the little snowman ice cream bought outside the supermarket. This matter has been settled, but at this moment, Young Master Gu Lie accidentally saw the small note and a line of sticky notes on the ground that fell from the satchel.

"Don't eat radishes, have pollen allergies, drink a glass of milk every day before going to bed, and watch two episodes of Teletubbies? Who are you writing this for?"

He was asking casually.But Wang Xu, a guy with a lot of previous convictions, suddenly changed his expression, and began to falter again: "Uh, this, this... Young Master Lie, why don't we change the place first, the ice cream seems to be melting..."

Feeling that his attitude had changed abnormally, Young Master Gu Lie, who was in a better mood, leaned against the luxury car behind him, pinched a small note, and squinted his eyes displeased and suspiciously at the boy.

"Have you got a girlfriend?"

Hearing this, Wang Xu, who was holding the ice cream in one hand, stretched out his hand and was stunned for a moment, the corner of his mouth twitched by the jump of his thoughts.

"Girl, girlfriend? Are you kidding me... This is what I wrote for fun, Young Master Lie, it's not like you don't know that I have never held a girl's hand except my mother..."

But seeing his attitude of fishing in troubled waters, Gu Lie became more certain in his heart, he threw the note back to him with a flick of his hand, and said with a cold face mixed with irritability and a sneer.

"You need to carry it with you when you write it to play. Just like you, a mortal like you who knows how to play after three days of fishing and two days of surfing the net is still liked by others. The door is asking God to bless you to pass, and the one who likes you may also be a blind idiot with an abnormal brain!"

"Hey, no, Gu Lie, how did I mess with you again! Why are you making me angry! Yes, you have been handsome since you were young, and you are excellent in all aspects. All the girls like you, okay? But what does this have to do with me? Does it matter if you want to live..."

Talking back about his life attack, Wang Xu, who looks like a handsome young man with a sunny face, squatted beside the battery car like a waste wood. People are on the bar.

But he kissed his cousin, the rich red-haired young man in front of him who was indeed more handsome than him and had a bad temper didn't want to talk nonsense with him at all, so he put the four or five bags of snacks and the big dog on the roof of the car with a cold face. The toy rabbits smashed into his arms, then turned around and left.

Holding the snacks and the big rabbit in his arms, Wang Xu was stunned by the smash. He wanted to stop the red-haired young man, but he stopped when he thought of something going on upstairs in his house.

This made Gu Lie's face even worse. Realizing that Wang Xu, who listened to him the most when he was young, didn't even coax him anymore, his hands were completely clenched.

"Let me ask you again, who were you with when you didn't come back last night? Is there anyone else in your house now, so I'm not allowed to go upstairs now."

The handsome and seductive red-haired young man looked coldly at the person who grew up with him and shared all his youthful thoughts.

"It's just an unimportant stranger, barely counting as half of them. You don't know if I tell you... You can stop asking if it's okay. I'll wait until this matter is over and explain it to you, Ariel."

But this time, Wang Xu, who was standing in front of his car, still pursed his lips helplessly and couldn't speak to him.This made the proud red-haired youth kick his own car tire angrily.

At this moment, the two cousins, aged 17 to 25, have always been close, almost never secretive, and the atmosphere is cold and scary.

Gu Lie, who was so angry at him for the first time, lowered his head and scattered his red hair over his shoulders, and then stopped with one hand on the car to grab it. Then he gritted his teeth with bloodshot eyes and turned his head to look at the man who didn't even stop him. Wang Xudao,

"...I'm just an idiot, and I'm still an idiot who cares about a completely heartless person!"

"I'm going to make you angry... I think I'm a hopeless idiot! Since last night, I've been foolishly waiting downstairs at your house until now, just to come back from Lingshan in advance to celebrate his first graduation from college. Find a job for the first time!"

"But there is a man who not only hides everything from me now, but also had a lot of fun with some messy people outside last night! He doesn't even want to answer my calls! He even won't let me in his house now."

"You don't need to call me anymore recently. I'm very busy and don't have time for anyone. You can call the person who doesn't eat radish pollen allergies and loves to watch Teletubbies Cousin, and don't come to me again!"

It was this sentence that broke all the squabbling between the two people.

Gu Lie, who was really angry with him this time, drove away without looking back, and also made Wang Xu, who stayed where he was, with black hair on the corners of his eyes blocking his true expression, stood alone with his head bowed for a long time before using one hand to Pressing the bridge of his nose, he pursed his lips unhappily.

When he turned his head, the black-haired young man picked up the things on the ground again, went upstairs in his usual heartless manner, and unlocked the anti-theft door of his small house, before he could enter the house First, there was one lying on the sofa covered with a blanket, listening to his footsteps under the 'big rabbit' toy.

It was also after seeing this scene and making sure that everything was fine while he was going out, Wang Xu finally showed a happy smile before he squatted down, picked up the milk and toys in his hand and said,

"La la la, Cousin Rabbit finally came back from get off work with a bountiful harvest of radishes! Today, the two of us should spend the night watching the Teletubbies together again!"