soul collector

"what?"

The soundproofing of the phone was not good, and Tang Xiu was also shocked when he saw Jiang Qiao.

"Where is he now?"

"I don't know. The reporter blindly ran into a dead mouse, and the camera was confiscated by the soldiers immediately after the shooting, so there is no video data, but the news should be true." Li Ziping said: "His agent can't contact him now, that People have a little friendship with me, and asked me to find Director Jiang to find a way, so I had no choice but to..."

"Don't worry, I'm with Jiang Qiao." Tang Xiu said, "Let his agent find a way to suppress the news first. This matter won't be as serious as you think. Jiang Qiao and I will go and see it." look."

"Okay." Li Ziping paused, and suddenly wanted to ask why you were still with Director Jiang in the early morning?But it wasn't the time, he swallowed the words silently, feeling very tormented inside.

Shen Simo's phone number really didn't work, so Jiang Qiao simply called his friend in the military area to ask, but was shocked.Shen Simo went to block his father at the gate of the military area during the off-duty period of the national public office. Shen Liguo watched from a distance and avoided it. .

It is true that the guard drew his gun, but "almost shot" is definitely exaggerated by the reporter. They even turned off the insurance to scare him away.But this time, Shen Simo seemed to be determined after eating a weight. No matter how hard he tried to drive him away, his phone accidentally fell to the ground and broke during the tearing process, so he couldn't get in touch.

Jiang Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, "Then where is he now?"

"I don't know." The other party replied: "The general seems to have finally agreed to see him. The two of them don't know what conflicts have arisen recently, and the people at the bottom are really helpless. Who in the military region doesn't know that Shen Simo is Shen Liguo's son. He played in the military region since he was a child, and the guards didn't dare to do anything, so they can't be shot and thrown out."

Jiang Qiao murmured, "Thank you very much."

"It's okay." The other party was a little dizzy, "It's already early in the morning, why did you come to me for this?"

"Hmm." Jiang Qiao heard the other party's inquiry, but he didn't explain why he meddled in the general's housework. He just repeated, "I'm sorry."

After hanging up the phone, Tang Xiu asked, "Who is this person you are looking for? Is the news reliable?"

"He's a vice-counselor, a friend of my cousin's." Jiang Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly laughed angrily after a while, "He won't leave even if he points a gun at it. This kid is really good at messing around."

Tang Xiu frowned when he heard the words, he faintly felt that the old fox seemed to be hiding something, "What did you say to Shen Simo today?"

"I told you what you asked me to say." Jiang Qiao looked innocent, "Didn't you say that Shen Liguo was going to be seriously ill? I told him that a friend of mine found out that his father was terminally ill. If he doesn't die today, he will die tomorrow. Let him take his dad to the hospital anyway."

Tang Xiu, "..."

They lived together peacefully overnight, but early the next morning, Tang Xiu checked the Internet again, only to find that yesterday's news about Shen Simo making trouble at the gate of the military area was gone.Not to mention Weibo, even the posts in Tieba and forums have disappeared completely.It is said that Shen Simo contacted the agent after returning home in the early morning, not only did not explain what happened yesterday, but also directly asked the company to terminate the contract.

The compensation was not low, and he paid it without saying a word.

Tang Xiu was really confused, and he didn't know whether this meant a good result or a bad result. He was thinking about it when he heard footsteps in the corridor.As if there was an intuition in his heart, he walked lightly to the door and looked out through the peephole.

It was indeed Shen Simo who came. He was wearing a shirt and didn't look embarrassed. He stood at the door of Jiang Qiao's house and rang the doorbell.As soon as Jiang Qiao opened the door, the young man plopped down on his knees, his knees hitting the marble tiles with a real loud noise, and Tang Xiu almost took a step back in fright even across the door.

Jiang Qiao glanced around in embarrassment, and paused for a while at the opposite door. He felt that Tang Xiu should be watching all this, so he quickly pulled Shen Simo up, gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter with you? What happened yesterday? It's not enough to make a fuss, come to me again today to make news?"

Shen Simo explained something in a low voice, the voice was so small that Tang Xiu couldn't hear clearly, he could only see Jiang Qiao opened the door and let him in.

It took almost two hours before there was finally another sound from the opposite door, and Shen Simo left.Jiang Qiao watched him get on the elevator, and then took the initiative to come to the door to explain.

"This kid confessed to me."

"Shen's mother did have an affair more than 20 years ago. It is said that it was half plotted by others, but this is just the words of the parties involved, and it is impossible to determine whether it is true or not. She tried her best to pretend that the matter had never happened, and everything was as usual with Shen Liguo, but But after more than a month, I found out that I was pregnant, and I couldn't even tell who the child belonged to, so I could only swallow this secret for so many years."

"The accident happened at the beginning of this year. Shen's mother once drank too much and said something wrong. Shen Liguo asked Shen Simo to do a blood test in Italy and send it back. At that time, he didn't say that he wanted to check his genes, so Shen Simo didn't think much about it. As a result, within a week of sending it back to China, he was told that he and his mother had been kicked out. His mother was afraid that he would not be able to finish his studies, and did not tell him that he had an ear nerve tumor. He did not fall ill until he came back. So you first observed That's right, at that time Shen Simo was really poor, and he had no choice but to sign a contract with a small company."

Jiang Qiao paused, and then continued: "You were right when you observed Shen Liguo's face yesterday. Shen Liguo's liver has always been bad, and it was found to be liver cancer yesterday. Fortunately, it was only in the early stages. His father went to the hospital for a physical examination, and it may be too late by the time the half-yearly official medical examination is held."

"Then his father..."

"I didn't make it clear that this family can't be reconciled, but Shen Liguo asked him yesterday if he changed his surname. He said no, and he was in a mess. Shen Liguo said he was in a mess, so let's think again."

Tang Xiu, "..." He was silent for a moment, "This person is really trying to save face."

Jiang Qiao sighed, "It's understandable. After all, the child who has been raised for more than 20 years suddenly told him that it wasn't his own. It's a man's heart to get over it. Not to mention Shen Liguo's status, it's normal for him not to rub the sand in his eyes." He said Rubbing his temples wearily, "But this burst of anger should have dissipated a lot. Shen Simo's filial heart, once tears fall, I, an outsider, feel distressed when he sees it. What's more, his father is sick and mentally fragile. Maybe deep down in my heart, I still hope that my son will be with me."

Tang Xiu hummed, "What's wrong with you?"

"Headache." Jiang Qiao sighed, "It's too much to worry about."

Tang Xiu didn't say anything, he pressed Jiang Qiao's temples, and Jiang Qiao felt excruciating pain with a little force, and wanted to break free.

"do not move."

Jiang Qiao bared his teeth, "I'll be fine after a while, please let me go, the genius doctor."

Tang Xiu ignored him, and after pressing for a while, he let go. Jiang Qiao felt the pain go away, and his whole head seemed to lighten ten catties at once. He felt extremely comfortable. He took a deep breath and said with a smile: " You are very powerful. What kind of experience is it to walk for thousands of years? You know everything and have seen everything, tsk tsk..."

Tang Xiuxiu was about to speak, but he suddenly saw the soul-collecting flag moving from the corner of his vision. He turned his head to look, but found that there was a slight movement of the soul attribute on the soul-collecting flag.

——That's not the uncollected soul, that's the No.14 strand of filial piety, Tang Xiu got it thousands of years ago.

The soul collector only needs to collect 36 souls in each life to gain life extension. In this life, he originally thought that he would fall asleep after getting the uncollected souls, so he has been procrastinating and refusing to collect souls.After entering the circle, he had no choice but to collect three souls, and he didn't want to add up the numbers, so he asked Jiang Qiao to help this time, but unexpectedly, did the soul-collecting flag still sense it?

Tang Xiu stepped forward to check in confusion, but the banner where Xiaoshan was just moved slightly, and he stroked it with his fingers—it was empty, this strand of soul did not enter the banner.

Song Mian's good soul, Yu Yin's and Wang Yu's evil souls are all the fruits of his life, and they are locked up in the banner.Only this thread should not be attributed to his filial piety, touched the banner, but did not enter the banner.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Qiao saw that Tang Xiu suddenly entered the room to check the soul-collecting banner, and followed him in, "Why..." Before he could finish speaking, he saw that the soul-collecting banner suddenly lifted up and broke free from the trap on the wall. The nail slapped Jiang Qiao's face with his head.

The soul-collecting banner was half the height of an adult. Jiang Qiao didn't react at all, and was slapped and fell to the ground. With a bang, everything on the table shook.

"Damn it...this thing is poisonous..." Jiang Qiao pulled the soul-collecting banner off his head and threw it aside while breathing hard. He gasped for breath, blushed and stared at the soul-collecting banner on the ground.

However, the soul-collecting flag faded to blood red again, and the No. 80 ray of uncollected soul seemed to have a small thing sewn in it, and it struggled out one by one.If passers-by were present, they might feel that the flag fell in love with Jiang Qiao, and something that seemed to be a small heart was thumping.

Jiang Qiao swallowed a few mouthfuls of spit, then turned to look at Tang Xiu, "What's the meaning of this thing? Is this a deer bumping? Is the uncollected soul that I like you, or do you like me?"

Tang Xiu's expression was serious, and he said slowly: "I don't think so." He walked forward while talking, bent down and picked up the soul-collecting banner on the ground.

"Old man, I seem to understand what you mean..."

Jiang Qiao looked confused, "What do you mean? This thing is completely insane, and you can understand what it means?...I'm afraid you are not communicating with your soul."

Tang Xiu didn't mean to make any jokes. He took a serious look at Jiang Qiao and said in thought, "The first time I saw you, the soul-collecting banner moved. After that, there were several times when our relationship increased, and the soul-collecting banner also changed. Response. At the same time, we encountered Lu Kangjing’s drugged driving case, Yu Yin’s case of hiring someone to rape Zhang Kaixing’s wife, and Wang Yu’s case of stalking Song Mian and Lu Kangjing. My feelings have further developed and fluctuated, but they are related to every case I start to investigate..."

Tang Xiu paused, "Every time I investigate a case, you are there. The first time you were just a bystander, and the second time you dragged me away in the villa, so that I was not found to eavesdrop. Soul has made some substantive contributions. In the third Wang Yu case, you helped almost the whole process, pretending to have injured your hand, taking advantage of Wang Yu's fawning over you, and so on. You made a great contribution to the collection of souls. As for this time... The main credit lies with you, so this time, although this strand of soul caused a change, it did not enter my banner."

Jiang Qiao was so shocked that he couldn't speak, "What do you mean? It really likes me?"

Tang Xiu went through all the clues in his mind again, and said firmly: "Whether this uncollected soul came from you or me is unknown, but I think it is the inheritance, the inheritance of the soul collector."

He touched the symbol of the uncollected soul that had just been extinguished, and said in a low voice: "If I'm not wrong, the things that bulge up here may one day turn into your future soul-collecting streamer. At that time, don't think about it The soul of filial piety is in your streamer."

Jiang Qiao froze on the spot, Tang Xiu glanced at him, closed his eyes and thought while holding the soul-collecting banner.

That's right, the last time the soul-collecting flag changed drastically was in the middle of the night on the set, and that night Jiang Qiao went to Shen Simo alone to help him.And when the turmoil in Jihun Banner was the most violent, Jiang Qiao just persuaded Shen Simo to accept the money, and he also said that he felt very satisfied at that time.

It's also because he's slow. After being a soul collector for ten thousand years, isn't the sense of satisfaction and surging emotion in his heart the same as the Jiang Qiao who is getting better now?Jihun Banner reminded so clearly that he didn't think in that direction at all.

The soul-collecting banner is black, white and red, black for evil, white for good, and that red -- no one knows what it is.But if there is a third thing in this world that is free from good and evil, it is probably the soul collector himself.They have eternal life, punish evil and promote good, and are the most just judges in the world, so there is no difference between good and evil.

Tang Xiu felt that his pores were trembling. He had thought that the uncollected soul might be someone he liked, and he had chosen Jiang Qiao, but it was only at this moment that he realized that it was not he who chose Jiang Qiao, but Jiang Qiao. The next generation of soul-collecting streamers chose a new master—and he was lucky enough to meet this person in his 1th year as a soul-collector.

Jiang Qiao caressed the Jihun Banner in a daze. The old thing was quiet now, without the guilt of slapping someone on the face just now.Jiang Qiao was stunned for a while, then suddenly asked, "Are you telling me that I am the next soul collector to be chosen?"

"That's almost what it means." Tang Xiu still felt unbelievable, and frowned, "But it doesn't make any sense. Soul collectors are raised by nature, and have never had a mortal body. It's just that the spiritual energy in the world has gradually declined for thousands of years. , very few new soul collectors have been bred."

Jiang Qiao glanced at him, and said in a daze, "Perhaps as early as in the chaos, Heaven and Earth thought that this day would come, so they left a strand of soul No. 80, which is another channel for inheriting the soul collector. "

Tang Xiu nodded, but he still looked at Jiang Qiao and the soul-collecting banner with scrutiny in his eyes.

His unspoken confusion was that if the inference was true and Jiang Qiao had successfully collected the first ray of soul, then his life as a soul collector should have started here, but why did the soul-collecting flag still only stop at the stage of giving clues...