I live on the 18th floor of Nether Community

Xichi sat in front of the table, slowly flipping through an ancient book.The tower incense in the white jade censer was burned out, he got up and walked to the bookcase, took out another one from the box with black shading and lit it.

It was the time of sunset, and the setting sun slanted into the house, making everything look a bit warmer.If you don't know that Xichi is in the murderous building of Mingyuan, you will even think that he lives on the top floor of a high-end residential area just by looking at the room.

Ding-dong-

The doorbell rang crisply.

Qi Chi's eyes sank and he closed the book.The moment he got up to open the door, he met Jiang Xiao's smiling eyes.

"What are you doing, brother Xiaohua?" Jiang Xiao leaned against the door frame of Qichi's house in an angry manner, twirling a cigarette as nimbly as a pen in his hand, biting into his mouth, and poked his head into the room, "Is Ajiao here today?"

"Come in." Qi Chi turned his lower body and let Jiang Miao into the room.Jiang Miao was also not polite, walked into the living room loudly, slumped on the sofa casually, and stretched.

"It smells so good." With a cigarette in his mouth, Jiang Miao turned his head towards Qichi and raised the corners of his lips, "By the way, I ran into a rare thing today."

Xichi closed the door of the study room, habitually pushed the white porcelain cup used as an ashtray for Jiang Miao in front of him, and then raised his head and said softly, "Would you like tea?"

Jiang Miao didn't answer, but just followed the beginning of his sentence and said: "Today, I pretended to be a reporter and went to the opera troupe to find the big sister on the 13th floor, and unexpectedly I caught up with the upper body of the ghost right under my nose. .”

Jiang Miao tilted his head and lit the cigarette in his mouth: "It's really unreasonable! The key is that I didn't feel anything at all before the ghost possessed me."

"Strange." Qi Chi smiled, raised his hand and poured tea for Jiang Miao.

"Tell me, isn't this a blatant provocation? It's too disrespectful!" Jiang Xiao blew out a smoke ring, "I'll look for it carefully and see what kind of trick this thing uses to make me lose my face!" I didn’t notice its existence. It turned out that I really discovered it!”

"What did you find?"

"Incense ash." Jiang Xiao raised his eyes slightly, "The smell is similar to your home."

The teacup made a crisp sound, and a small puddle of water fell on the table.

Jiang Miao silently looked into Qi Chi's deep eyes, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

I don't know how long it took, only to hear Qi Chi's deep laugh: "Jiang sir suspects me?"

"Of course not!" Jiang Miao stretched his arms on the back of the sofa, relaxed his body, "I just want to ask Brother Xiaohua about the origin of this fragrance."

"It's easy to say." Xi Chi added a cup of tea for himself, and said slowly, "This incense is called Xuli, and it is a kind of water agarwood. Immortals take turns guarding them, so it’s quite difficult to get them.” He paused, and then added: “It’s very expensive.”

Jiang Miao laughed and said: "Brother Xiao Hua is indeed tall, rich and handsome! But why is this incense so precious? It makes all three demons and four beasts want to dominate."

"Xu Li has three layers of efficacy, pain relief is only the first layer, but it can make people feel no pain when they are peeling and digging out their hearts." After Qi Chi finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Miao lightly, "It's all up to him to help Ajiao change his skin."

"What? What skin change?" Jiang Xiao obviously paused while smoking.

Qi Chi slowed down his tone: "I didn't bother to explain to you before, every time Ajiao came to me, it was to let me paint his skin and put it on again."

"Wait...you mean that Ajiao's skin is fake?!" Jiang Xiao gasped, "What about his own skin?"

"I lost it, and he has been looking for it."

Hearing what Qichi said, Jiang Miao felt pain oozing from his pores.He scratched his hair in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I see that every time he comes out of your room, he looks like that. I thought you two were broken...cough, yes! Ajiao looks so good Beautiful, after all, it is a man's body. Hey, it's not long, anyway, Brother Xiaohua is very good at drawing!"

"So Sir Jiang is clear now?"

Jiang Miao downed the herbal tea in one gulp, and sighed with a smile: "It's clear, it's clear! Let me tell you...!"

"However, although Ajiao and I don't have that kind of relationship..." Qi Chi looked at Jiang Miao, slightly raised the corners of his lips, "There's nothing wrong with being a man."

"That's, that's it!" Jiang Miao nodded repeatedly following Qi Chi's words, and suddenly reacted afterward, feeling that there was something wrong with what he said.

Without waiting for Jiang Miao to think about it, Qichi turned back to the topic: "Xu Lixiang's second layer of efficacy is to permeate life and death, connect yin and yang, and it can allow the dead to communicate with the living, so it is also called "Returning Soul Incense." "

"Through yin and yang? Isn't that similar to raw rhinoceros?"

"It is similar, but it is born and burned, and its fragrance can go straight to the underworld, so it is easy for you Yin soldiers to detect. It is a taboo for the living and the dead to meet at any time, and you will definitely not allow this to happen easily. Xu Li It will be different..."

Jiang Miao lit another cigarette, unconsciously leaned his body towards Qichi, motioning him to continue.

"If you compare the fragrance of rhinoceros to a medium connecting yin and yang, then Xu Li has added another layer of blocking on top of this medium. In this way, the dead can see the living without being caught by the underworld." found."

"So awesome? No wonder it's so precious! ... What about the third floor?"

Qi Chi showed a trace of trance, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid only the incense maker knows about it."

Jiang Miao looked surprised: "Who is the incense maker?"

Following Jiang Xiao's words, some incomplete memories suddenly flashed in Xichi's mind.

The man lowered his eyes halfway, resting his chin on one hand, sitting in front of the court bored.The bodhi flower fell on his shoulder, and he stretched out his hand to hold the flower in his hand, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Good guy, it's just for me to use as incense."

……

"Brother Xiaohua?" Jiang Miao's voice interrupted Qichi's thoughts.

"I should have seen that person at Mount Sumeru, but I can't remember who he is." Qi Chi looked at Jiang Miao with dark and deep eyes, "But that person really looks like you."

Jiang Miao was uncomfortable being stared at by the other party, he quickly ran through his mind again, convinced that he had never been to Mount Sumeru before, he waved his hand and said, "Maybe it's because of a bump in the face."

Jiang Xiao picked up the teacup and took a sip: "So you brought Xu Lixiang back here just for Ajiao?"

"Ajiao hadn't come when I got Xu Lixiang." Qi Chi frowned slightly, "There was always a voice in my heart telling me that I must find Xu Lixiang and keep him by my side."

have a voice?Jiang Miao felt that the amount of information was too much, so he temporarily suppressed his thoughts and turned back to the efficacy of incense.

Jiang Miao: "You said just now that Xu Lixiang can set up a barrier. I think the person who came to the 13th floor kept me from being discovered by relying on this fragrance."

Xi Chi nodded: "But the incense is extremely rare, and I'm afraid you can't get it with the ability of the Yin Ke on the 13th floor. Unless..."

Jiang Miao twisted the smoke into the white porcelain cup: "Unless someone is helping her."

……

In the middle of the moon, Jiang Xiao was lying on the roof of the opera troupe's rehearsal hall with his hands on his head and a few empty beer cans beside him.

He grabbed an unopened bottle of beer and opened it with one hand, raised his head and took a sip, thinking about his thoughts.

Why did Xichi say that the reason he stayed in the Underworld Garden was himself?Why do you think the incense maker of Mount Sumeru is him?What is the origin of Qichi? Even the mentally retarded can't believe that the person who can eat the dry land Luosha in one bite is an ordinary flower demon.

Why is Xichi's memory incomplete, and why is he dreaming?Where is the Red Sea that appeared in the dream?Where did Hades hide his soul?Or is his soul not in the underworld at all?

Could it be that the person in Xichi's mouth really has something to do with him...?

Jiang Miao rubbed his swollen forehead, still puzzled.He took out a cigarette from his coat pocket and was about to light it when he saw a little paper man not far away flying towards him at full speed.

"Still haven't found it?" Jiang Miao let the little paper figurine fall into his palm.

The little paper man shook his head and sighed.

"Okay, don't be dejected." Jiang Xiao squeezed the beer can in his hand, "According to the current situation, instead of looking for the elder sister who used Xu Lixiang to cheat, it is better to find the person who uses the incense behind her." .”

Jiang Xiao raised his head and drank the last sip of wine, sat up and was about to leave when his phone vibrated suddenly.

He turned on his phone and saw that Sun Miao had sent him a selfie.

In the photo, Sun Miao is wearing a small crown on her head, sitting on the sofa of KTV with a cake in her hand, surrounded by a group of people.

——Brother Jiang Xiao, please wish me a happy birthday!

Sun Miao sent a message with a cute emoji of a kitten.

Jiang Xiao smiled, typed "Happy Birthday" and sent it, and two more voices came back immediately.

Jiang Xiao pressed play, and Sun Miao's excited voice came from the phone instantly.

"Wow! Brother Xiao, you really didn't sleep!"

"I'm at KTV with my friends. My best friend said that making a wish at this time is the most effective!"

Then came a shrill female voice from the receiver: "What makes a wish the best! It's the best confession!"

Then there was a burst of laughter.

Jiang Miao thought it was probably because Sun Miao drank too much, so he didn't come back.He threw the phone back into his pocket, and walked slowly into the night in the direction of the famous garden of the underworld...

By the time we got there, it was almost midnight.From a long distance, Jiang Miao saw Qi Chi standing at the door.

"Brother Xiaohua." Jiang Miao waved his hands, and Chao Qichi walked up, "What are you doing?"

"Come down and take out the trash." Qi Chi looked at Jiang Xiao and frowned slightly, "Have you been drinking?"

Jiang Xiao smiled: "Beer, if you're bored, just order some."

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone in his pocket rang again.

Jiang Xiao took out his phone and pressed the answer button.

"Brother Jiang Miao!" Miao Miao's voice came from over there, "I'm sorry! My best friend is just joking!"

"It's okay! I just wanted to say happy birthday to you again." Jiang Xiao looked at Qichi, motioned for him to answer the phone first, and let Xichi go upstairs by himself.

Ke Xichi didn't seem to understand, and still stood beside him motionless.

"Brother Xiao, are you coming to play with us?" Sun Miao asked.

Immediately there was another booing from the other end of the phone: "That's right, handsome guy! Miao Miao said you look handsome, come and let us meet!"

"Oh, don't make trouble!" Sun Miao yelled, turned back and said excitedly, "Brother Xiao, let me tell you, our Teacher Liu told me today that I want to replace Xiaoxue in the role of Frost Flower Tribulation."

"What?" Jiang Xiao was taken aback for a moment, "Acting... Shuang'er?"

"En!"

"But didn't you say that something happened to the person playing this role today." Jiang Miao asked doubtfully, "Aren't you very scared?"

"It's nothing to be afraid of, but for us young actors, it's not easy to be the leading role in a play. Places like theater companies are very particular about seniority, and actors like us may not be able to act for most of their lives. I can get a character with a name." Sun Miao on the phone seemed to have made up her mind and said, "Ms. Liu is the person I admire the most, and this opportunity is once in a lifetime, so I must not miss it!"

"Well, sister..." Jiang Xiao was thinking about what to say, when Sun Miao softened his voice and said sweetly: "Besides, I still have the amulet that brother Xiao gave me, you will definitely protect me, Right?"

Jiang Miao: "..."

"Brother Xiao, at this moment, I was born~"

"Oh, four o'clock, right?"

Jiang Xiao's voice suddenly paused, and the hand holding the phone couldn't help but tighten.

Four o'clock...wasn't that the time when the female ghost hanged herself!

"Miao Miao." Jiang Miao took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid you'll have to play all night long, won't you rehearse tomorrow?"

"Don't worry, the rehearsal is in the afternoon."

"Well, how about having a meal together at noon tomorrow?"

"Huh?! Really?!"

"Well, I'll accompany you to rehearse this afternoon."

"It's a deal, Brother Miao!"

"Okay." After Jiang Xiao finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Xichi stepped forward and pushed open the gate of the famous garden in the underworld, and turned to Jiang Xiao and said lightly: "Go up after we finish talking."

"Brother Xiaohua." Jiang Miao still stood where he was, motionless.

Qi Chi remained silent, and signaled Jiang Miao to continue with his eyes.

Jiang Miao looked up at Qichi, frowned and said, "I suspect someone is going to find a substitute for that ghost."