soul collector

The ancestor with a knotted head went to the kitchen and pulled out an extremely sharp boning knife from the knife holder, spread the soul-collecting banner on the table, and said to Jiang Qiao in the distance, "Come here."

Jiang Qiao took two steps back vigilantly, "What are you going to do?... Take me as a sacrifice?"

"..." Tang Xiu frowned, slightly impatient, "It won't hurt you, why ask so many questions?"

Jiang Qiao froze for a few seconds, swallowed, and thought to himself that if I didn't really like you, I would have called the police a long time ago... He walked over step by step while muttering in his heart.Tang Xiu glanced at him, "Give me a finger, and I'll take a drop of blood."

"Hmm." Jiang Qiao hesitated, stretched out his left thumb, and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, "Is taking a drop of blood a 40-meter-long knife?"

Tang Xiu said calmly: "If you really become a soul collector in the future, you should be careful when speaking in front of the soul banner. Talking about swords in front of the Dao is unlucky."

Jiang Qiao complained wildly in his heart, so I just mentioned, you have a big knife hanging on the forehead of Jihun Banner, didn't Jihun Banner make a sound?oppressive rule.

The sharp blade touched lightly on the pulp of his finger, Jiang Qiao didn't even feel it, a large drop of bright red blood oozed from his finger, Tang Xiu quickly grabbed his finger and turned it upside down, squeezing the drop of blood To the center of the 81 soul positions on the soul-collecting streamer

——A miraculous phenomenon appeared, the drop of blood fell freely into the air and suddenly stopped. In the palm of his hand, it looked no different from a normal drop of blood.

"The soul-collecting banner really won't accept you." Tang Xiu looked at Jiang Qiao in shock, and explained: "There are two ways to collect souls. The most commonly used method is to punish evil and promote good. There is also a method that is rarely used because of its low feasibility. The soul collectors take risks. This method is to catch people in front of the soul-collecting flag, and use a drop of blood as a guide, and the most powerful soul of that person will enter the flag recently, and find the soul attribute to which it belongs. Regardless of the good soul Evil souls will eventually belong, if you are a mortal, you will not fail to collect the soul banner."

"I'm really a soul collector!" Jiang Qiao whispered, and the next second he hugged Tang Xiu tightly from behind, lowered his head and buried it on Tang Xiu's shoulder, and whispered: "We are the same , we turned out to be the same."

Tang Xiu held the knife, "Control your emotions."

"Why do you want to control?" Jiang Qiao raised his head, eyes full of joy, "We are the same, we can be together forever! Live forever together, if you get tired of living, we will sleep together."

Looking at those hopeful eyes, the soft place deep in the ancestor's heart seemed to be poked, and his voice softened, "In theory, it is so. But your soul-collecting flag has not yet been released, you are not officially We have only solved half of the mystery of No.80, a ray of inheritance. The soul-collecting flag only reminds you that you are a soul-collector, but does not give guidance on how to awaken you. It will be harder to go."

"It's okay!" Jiang Qiao smiled like a child, "At least we see hope."

Tang Xiu stared at him for a long time, and finally smiled slowly, and sighed softly, "Yes, I see hope."

The next morning, Li Ziping came to Tang Xiu's house for breakfast with the selected youth drama script, and it was no surprise that as soon as he entered the door, he saw the boss sitting at the table waiting for dinner.Li Ziping could only pretend not to be embarrassed, but he didn't expect Jiang Qiao to frown as soon as he sat down and opened the script, "What the hell is this?"

"The script." Mentioning the script, Li Ziping became more confident, "The best youth drama script at this stage, there are a lot of young people in the company vying for it, and I won it for Tang Xiu. Director, can you make me look good?"

Jiang Qiao glanced at him with a mentally retarded look, and asked in confusion, "Are you talking to me seriously, or are you joking?"

"what?"

Jiang Qiao casually picked up the script, flipped through it, and threw it into the trash can beside him, "We can't shoot this."

Tang Xiu just came over with breakfast, but he didn't react when he saw all this.Li Ziping, an artist in his own family, has no temper at all, and Li Ziping became even more angry, "Why can't you make it? Don't dislike this. It's not every day that there are huge blockbusters, let alone this kind of drama that praises people these days. I It's also for Tang Xiu's sake."

Jiang Qiao glanced at him, lowered his head and took a bite of the ham, "Schedule conflict."

"What conflict?" Li Ziping was stunned for a moment, "Tang Xiu is still free to join the team next month."

Jiang Qiao didn't even raise his head, "The recording of "The Book of Ten Thousand Volumes" will start next month, and CCTV doesn't accept artists asking for leave for any reason, you know that?"

"The Book of Ten Thousand Volumes?" Tang Xiu said in surprise, "I haven't contacted me since the interview. I thought..."

"You passed, it's just that you haven't sent a notification yet." Jiang Qiao faced Tang Xiu, his indifferent expression disappeared, and his brows and eyes were filled with gentle smiles, "You are the first to pass, and you are the most stable one. .”

Li Ziping was surprised and happy when he heard it, but he didn't dare to bluff. From the side, a certain director almost wrote "My wife is awesome" on his forehead.So he was silent for a long time, and he could only pretend to be oh, and said, "Then this drama should be postponed, and we will look for better ones later."

"I have a better one in my hand." Jiang Qiao said with a smile: "The screen is full of male and female love, and the audience should be tired of watching it. I am not only optimistic about books like "Zhanhutai" that have no love line. Directors with higher grades are using their brains."

Li Ziping snorted, and muttered softly, "Does Zhanhu Terrace have no love line? You don't dare to shoot men and women, so you switch to human-fox friendship..."

Jiang Qiao glanced at him, and continued, "Director Chen Gui from Hong Kong is about to make a playful travel movie, and I'm looking for a vacancy for the third male lead..."

"Director Chen Gui?" Li Ziping changed his moaning and chirping just now, his eyes widened, "Looking for a mainland actor? Are you willing to give it to the male third?"

Jiang Qiao directly despised him without mercy, "You can act like you have never seen the world, then I can directly consider changing Tang Xiu's manager."

Li Ziping, "..." With a smile on his face, he was also smiling in his heart.Chen Gui is a rare first-line director who is loved by Hong Kong and mainland audiences. The most important thing is that the recent works have been well received and well received. What's more, this is a big screen. His debut has been on the big screen twice. Open and bright.

"What character?" Tang Xiu asked, "I'm afraid the character is too funny..."

"I won't let you go on the screen to grandstanding. The jokes focus on the two male protagonists. The third male protagonist is a young innkeeper they met during their travels. The image is gentle and kind, the characters are rich in stories, and the image of the artist is maintained. Being able to shine is the most playable role in this book I think." Jiang Qiao smiled with love in his eyes, "Are you interested? If you like it, I'll tell Chen Gui for you and leave it to you directly." horn."

Li Ziping listened beside him, his blood boiled. It is really different if you have a way in your heart. With so many good opportunities, it is like a joke to mention it.

Tang Xiu originally wanted to read the script first, but when he glanced at him, he saw his manager winking at him vigorously, and his already round face squeezed out of the folds of the bun. He couldn't help laughing and said, "That's how it is."

Jiang Qiao hummed, "The recording period for the first season of "Wan Juan Shu" will last for half a month, and then he will join the group "The Narrow Encounter Road". In December, "Wanjuanshu" will be broadcast, and "Zhanhutai" will be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and your popularity will continue to rise. When the New Year is over, I have a new book for you to shoot."

"What movie?" Tang Xiu asked.

Jiang Qiao smiled, "It's not a movie, it's a TV series. You haven't made a serious TV series yet. Although the movie is popular, it doesn't make money, and it's not as good in maintaining popularity. I'll make a good script for you to play the leading role next year. we'll talk about it then."

"Okay." Tang Xiu nodded, very trusting.

Li Ziping silently choked on a few large slices of bread, and after Jiang Qiao arranged and planned everything, he said silently, "Director, do you think my manager needs to do something?"

Jiang Qiao glanced at him and said coldly, "Go and help him create a topic on Weibo."

"Hmm." Li Ziping sighed, "Creating topics...that's what public relations assistants do. Tang Xiu has already become popular, and the company will send him two public relations assistants to get paid."

Jiang Qiao said decisively: "You take the two salaries yourself, use the money to eat, don't come here to eat and drink all the time. Tang Xiu is a popular actor, and he doesn't cook for you."

Li Ziping, "..."

Yes yes yes, it is not cooking for me, it is cooking for you.

You are a director, you are awesome.

After Li Ziping left with a mutter in his mouth, Jiang Qiao smiled at Tang Xiu, "You are a manager with little resources, and you haven't seen much in the world, but you still like you."

Tang Xiu felt a little helpless, "Don't make fun of him. He is too fat, I have a vague feeling that his heart is not very good."

Jiang Qiao was overjoyed, "Li Ziping is going to jump off the building after listening to such remarks directed toward him."

After almost a week, Tang Xiu did receive a notification from CCTV.CCTV is different from other program groups. The interview results are searched online, and once they are refreshed, a big red news spreads all over the screen, making people panic watching.

When "The Book of Thousand Volumes" was filming the promotional poster, Tang Xiu stood among a bunch of "middle-aged" actors, his handsome face was particularly eye-catching.He was wearing a crisp white T, the cuffs were slightly rolled up, revealing his handsome wrists.

Originally he was gentle and youthful, but the program crew asked him to wear a pair of gold-rimmed glasses for added stability.Tang Xiu had no objection, and found a pair of glasses to put them on cooperatively.

But he didn't want to, as soon as this poster was released, he took the whole program with great vigor and became a trending search.

——Usually, educational programs will never attract too much attention in places like Weibo, at least not in the early stage of publicity, but this time is different.On the black poster, there are three eloquent golden characters of "Wan Juan Shu", which means the house of gold in the book.Directly below the title is Tang Xiu wearing gold-rimmed glasses, his deeply examining gaze piercing through the lenses directly hits people's hearts, and the faint smile on the corner of his lips makes the hearts of those who see it jump wildly.

Clothes beasts.

Sven scum.

These two words that never matched Tang Xiu were put on Tang Xiu by a pair of glasses, and the lofty entertainer suddenly gave people lustful reverie.This poster has gone crazy. Tang Xiu, who is inexplicably powerful and revealing Su Qi, is almost like giving his fans an injection of X medicine. Almost all the retweets and hot comments are shouting nosebleeds, nosebleeds.

Even Jiang Qiao froze for a while when he clicked on the poster, feeling that his kidneys were very restless.He stared at the screen for a long time, licked and licked his lips, but still felt parched and unable to calm down, so he had to drink a large glass of ice water, and then secretly cursed CCTV for being serious and hooligan.

Among a group of comments that wanted to give Tang Xiusheng a monkey, a certain director rummaged for several minutes, and finally dug up one that said "Thinking about the sun". your turn."

Tang Xiu was completely unaware of all this, and silently discovered that it was Li Ziping—the manager who was sent to manage Weibo by Jiang Qiao. Looking at the familiar ID, he recalled it for a while, and then his whole body trembled like a sieve.

Terrible, this director is too terrible, he is simply a beast that grows food.

……

The Weibo search index kept rising. After staying at home for half a month, when he finally went to CCTV to record "The Book of Ten Thousand Volumes", Tang Xiu was almost blocked by the paparazzi and fans squatting at the entrance of CCTV.

Li Ziping was full of energy to evacuate the crowd and instruct everyone not to disturb the work of the TV station. Tang Xiu entered the TV station after interacting with fans for a while.

The chief director of this program is called Wang Jian. He has directed text programs and documentaries on CCTV before. Before the other artists came, he first pulled Tang Xiu to talk.

On the day of the poster shooting, Tang Xiu already had an impression of this person. Wang Jian was in his 40s, taciturn, and the people under him were quick to do things. He led the team well and had deep prestige.The director would take the initiative to talk to him, but he didn't expect it.

"Director, are you looking for me?"

"Well, let's sit." Wang Jian took the initiative to pull a chair for Tang Xiu, and said with a smile, "We haven't got all the people yet, let's chat with you, we haven't cooperated before."

The unsmiling director looked very embarrassed with his forced smile. The ancestor felt a little absurd in his heart, so he sat down silently and said: "I have just debuted, and it is my honor to be on the CCTV program."

"Well, it's good for young people to keep a humble attitude." Wang Jian nodded, "You are the fastest among this group of artists, right? I heard that you signed the contract in July. Not really an artist."

Tang Xiu just laughed when he heard that, and Wang Jian said, "You have a good image as an artist, middle-aged people also have a good impression of you, young people like you even more."

Tang Xiu said, "Actually, I didn't deliberately make an image. When I first debuted, I was hacked for more than a month for no reason."

"I know about it."

"Really?" Tang Xiu smiled and said, "It seems that he was really hacked so badly back then that even you heard about it."

Wang Jian didn't comment on the words, but said: "I want to chat with you carefully, do you have time after the recording tonight?"

"Of course there is." Tang Xiu said, "Then let's talk about it tonight."

After other artists arrived, Wang Jian explained the recording process and theme to everyone as usual.Tang Xiu stood among several guests and observed Wang Jian.

The director was said to be difficult to approach, but he took the initiative to approach him.Although his words were polite, Tang Xiu had a faint feeling that this person's feelings for him seemed rather complicated.It is called admiration, but in fact it is insincere, and there is also a hint of inexplicable hostility, and I don't know if it is an illusion.