Aoba Office

What the thin man took out this time was a bit strange. They were two dried flower specimens sealed in plastic. Both items had no outer packaging and were held in the hands of the thin man. They looked like vacuum-packed fish fillets that had just been taken out of the supermarket freezer. It's just that these two "vacuum packages" are not filled with fish fillets, but red dried flower specimens.

The flowers, with their stems and leaves, were completely dehydrated and looked like plastic artificial flowers. Only when you get closer can you see the patterns on the petals, leaves, stems, and stamens.

The petals of these two flowers are very large, with only one cluster of stamens, and the leaves are like lily leaves. Judging from the flower shape, they look a bit like lotus.

The red color of the petals is a bit dazzling, as if it has been artificially dyed.

The thin man held these two things slightly, and the sunlight outside the window penetrated through the petals as thin as cicada wings, making the lines on the petals clearer.

It vaguely formed something that looked like a font.

In the blink of an eye, that feeling disappeared.

The thin man handed the two things directly to Ye Zhengyi.

"What is this?" Ye Zhengyi looked at these two things and asked in confusion.

"It should be called the lotus in front of the Buddha." The thin man said, "This kind of flower only grows on the tombs of eminent monks. It has a very powerful effect and can ward off evil spirits."

Ye Zhengding looked at the thin man.

I couldn't help but look at the thin man, "When it comes to evil spirits... it usually includes ghosts, right?"

The thin man was stunned.

He obviously didn't believe that nonsense story and didn't think through the logic at all. Both flowers were held by Ye Zhengyi, but nothing special happened, which was proof.

The thin man came back to his senses and said without changing his expression: "It will only be useful if you open it."

I turned my head and looked at the simple plastic packaging.

This thing reminds me of the natural knowledge class in elementary school. The young science teacher at that time taught us to make the simplest plant specimens using leaves picked up on campus. It seemed to be a manual plastic sealing method to seal the leaves, and the tools used seemed to be the material package included in the textbook.

I don’t have a deep impression of this. I just remember that a female classmate used the results of that class as a bookmark that she often kept in her pencil case.

As I recalled this, I felt that this might be the plot of a movie I had watched, rather than my personal experience.

Ye Zhengyi, like me, doesn't quite believe what Shouzi said.

However, he still put the things away and thanked him.

"Okay. If you don't have anything else to do, I'll go back." Ye Zhengyi stood up and prepared to leave.

"I want Xu Tiancheng's phone number." I said to Ye Zhengyi.

As expected, Ye Zhengyi knew Xu Tiancheng's contact information and directly reported his phone number.

I recorded the phone call, and when I looked up, I saw Ye Zhengyi walked through the door and left the thin man's house directly.

The thin man took the two paintings left by Ye Zhengyi and asked, "Are these things really useful?"

In the painting of the female ghost, the river is still flowing, but the female ghost has not returned.

As for Ye Zhengyi's painting, it looked unchanged at first glance, but when I used Nangong Yao's ability to look over it, I could see that the woman in the painting was faintly wrapped in chains. The chain has a circle, not the nine-circle chain that I saw on Ye Zhengyi, which belongs to ordinary people. One end of the chain extended into the void and disappeared.

I suddenly discovered that this was another doubtful point that I had missed before. Ye Zhengyi lied one after another, and the stories he told looked similar, but in the face of this special ability, there was nothing he could hide from. However, the way I use my abilities is really careless, and I never paid attention to such details before. In addition, it has not been long since I was able to use Nangong Yao's ability, so it is a bit difficult to use it freely.

"Brother Qi?" The thin man nudged me.

I put the introspection aside and shook my head at the thin man.

I'm not sure how effective the female ghost is.

However, as long as it can cause some trouble for those ghost kings, that is also good.

"Is that thing you took out really useful?" I asked the thin man.

The thin man's answer to me was also to shake his head, "The boss said it can ward off evil spirits. The effect should not be big. It is definitely impossible to kill ghosts. I think it still has the effect of warding off evil spirits. The lotus in front of the Buddha... the name is a bit exaggerated... It should be a flower growing in the temple with a little bit of Buddha nature, right?" The thin man said with an unreliable guess.

I could tell that he believed his conjecture.

With an attitude of preferring to believe what he has rather than what he doesn't, his ability should be able to have some effect.

As for the effect...

It's definitely not as strong as Lina's time.

Shouzi didn't care much about Ye Zhengyi and the others.

"What should I use for my parents and sister?" I asked the thin man again.

The thin man was packing up the pen, and when he heard my question, he looked embarrassed.

"Brother Qi, to be honest, I also want to get something like this..." The thin man sighed, "I have long thought about getting some amulets or something. When we first found out about Qingye Supernatural Agency, I was thinking about this. But you know, Bai Bai...Qi Bai likes things that are more evil. There are not many things with that protective nature, most of them are curses and bad luck..."

He said with a frown on his face, "I didn't dare to buy this kind of thing before. I only go to the temple to pay homage and burn a stick of incense. If I really want to buy it, I don't know if the thing I bought is right. Some of them are wrong." The amulet is said to be a charm from a small country, but maybe the spell is wrong. It turns out to be a charm to ward off evil spirits.

I heard something wrong in the thin man's words and couldn't help but frown.

The thin man put down what he was holding and sat down on the sofa, with his limbs spread out like a deflated rubber ball.

"What happened? Is there something you didn't tell us?" I asked.

The thin man rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Brother Qi, do you remember that abilities have side effects?"

My heart skipped a beat.

"I... the store I went to recently, the Dream Weaver Shop introduced by Qi Bai... they have a lot of foreign stuff. I used to accompany Qi Bai there, and I had a little feeling about it, but the feeling at that time, I think I was just imagining things. After that incident with Lina, and Bai Bai...after those two incidents, I went there often in the hope that I could help you and find something that could come in handy..." The thin man put down his hand and said tiredly, "There are not many people in that store, and there are usually very few customers. The front looks like a store selling fake gifts. You need someone to carry you to get inside... When I went there before, Qi Bai always took me with him. After being introduced by others, she got to know the store manager before she could lead me in. I... When I went there, the kids on duty didn't pay attention to me at all. Dyed hair, smoky makeup, multiple nails and rings on my face, and still listening to that kind of uncomfortable rock music..."

The thin man said, laughing to himself.

"I talked to him, but he ignored me. I wanted to go in and take a look inside. I told Qi Bai's name and talked about what was going on in the store. He turned up the music and looked at me with those dead fish eyes. I was like I want to leave... I want to find something useful through other means..." The thin man's eyes became confused, "When I was about to walk out of the store, I heard a sound... The music in the store also stopped. The voice... was probably speaking, but the pronunciation was very strange. It was not in any language we are familiar with. I didn't remember what it said. Like a puppet, the child opened the door inside and stood beside it. Wait for me to go in. I... already felt something was wrong and wanted to leave, but something went wrong... so I walked in..."