"Name?"
"Huai Shi."
"Age?"
"Seventeen … Wait a minute, is the Astronomy Society also recruiting male prostitutes?"
In the quiet office, the young man behind the desk scratched his chin and looked at the expressionless interrogator with a puzzled expression. "I say, uncle, these days, you've asked and investigated. At least I've eradicated a scourge for the Astronomy Society, right? Why do you treat me like a traitor? "
"Routine investigation, please cooperate."
For the umpteenth time, the interrogator said this sentence, and then asked again, "Can you describe to us the battle between you and the Red Gloves?"
"I can't remember, I can't remember." Huai Shi rolled his eyes. "Probably the bald caped Pepperfinger who passed by killed him with a slap. Really, I saw him fighting the Red Gloves as soon as I came in … "
"Oh, the bald caped Pepperfinger … Why is it different from what you said last time?"
"I can't remember!"
"Then, can you explain how you, as a newly promoted Splendid, killed the third-order Red Gloves? According to our previous investigation, you seem to have always been a student specializing in music, and you haven't even been in a fight. "
Huai Shi rolled his eyes. "I'm born with superhuman strength!"
"Then the next question …"
Two hours later, the interrogator calmly sorted out the thick stack of records in his hand and got up to say goodbye as if it was a routine business. "Then, thank you for your cooperation, and thank you for your contribution to this world."
After a formal handshake, he turned and left.
Huai Shi stood at the door with a dumbfounded expression.
"Finally done? Is there something wrong with the Astronomy Society? Sending such a person here and asking questions over and over these days … "
Ai Qing, who was reading, was not surprised. "It's normal. There must be a detailed record of Green Sun. They're all transcribers. Their duty is to record your words no matter what you say and then file them back. "
"Is such a superficial record really useful?"
"It's just a process." Ai Qing said calmly, "If no one wants to cause trouble during the process, it's probably not a problem."
"Hmm?" Huai Shi looked over. "Causing trouble?"
"Normal operation. Sit down."
Ai Qing calmly sipped the coffee brought by the female attendant. "Where there are people, there will be conflicts. The position of the supervisor is so important, and there have always been too many wolves and too little meat. No one will be convinced that a lame person like me who is only a few months away from twenty years old has taken the position. If I can free up a spot by doing something, I don't mind doing it. "
"…"
Huai Shi sucked in a breath of cold air. "Your Astronomy Society is really in deep trouble."
"I'll remind you one last time —"
Ai Qing finally raised her head and glanced at the tag on Huai Shi's chest. "It's not you, it's us. Of course, I don't mean to give you a sense of collective honor. If something happens to me, you won't be able to get away with it."
"Ah, I get it. I get it. You mean we're in the same boat, right?"
Huai Shi sighed. After so many days, he had almost gotten used to Ai Qing's way of talking, but why couldn't he hear any positive words from her mouth?
If he was now a negative energy generator, then Ai Qing could be said to be a factory. Their output equivalents were not on the same level.
How did this woman survive until now?
"Of course, it's through strength."
Ai Qing answered without looking up.
Huai Shi was stunned and immediately felt a chill in his heart. Did this woman even know how to read minds?
"I'm not a sublimator, so I don't know those inexplicable things. If I were you, I wouldn't have all the questions written on my face."
"Uh …"
Huai Shi touched his face subconsciously. "Is there something written on my face?"
"Yes." Ai Qing, who was reading the book, lifted her head to glance at him again. There was pity in her eyes. "This is a vivid description of the nature of human beings."
"Hmm? Is it a dove or a recorder? "
Huai Shi asked curiously.
"…"
Ai Qing did not want to talk to him anymore.
Under Huai Shi's constant barrage of noise, she finally showed a trace of impatience. She closed the book, and from the bottom of her heart, she wondered if there was something wrong with her brain when she recruited this kind of person as her secretary.
"What are you trying to do?"
She raised her finger to pinch the bridge of her nose and narrowed her eyes. "If you're going to have nothing better to do after writing your report, why don't you do a thorough investigation of the top ten haunted houses in Xin Hai that have been recently ranked by those busybodies on the internet? That way, there won't be people who are as bored as you who have gone crazy from exploring haunted houses."
"Don't even bring that up!"
Huai Shi slammed the table angrily when the topic was brought up. "That ranking is bullsh * t! The first place on the ranking is my house!
Why do you think my house is a haunted house? Isn't it just a bit deserted and poor? If I had the money, would I not have fixed the door? In the past two days, I've already chased away four waves of crazy people who came to take pictures! "
"…"
Ai Qing sighed helplessly. "So, what are you trying to say?"
"Er … I just want to ask …" Huai Shi suddenly became shy. He rubbed his hands and forced out a fawning smile. "Boss, can you give me my salary in advance?"
"…"
Ai Qing took a deep breath and resisted the urge to throw her book at the man's face. "Haven't I already given you more than 20,000 RMB?"
"That's all." Huai Shi held back his tears and looked at the dead Crow on the tree outside the window. "In any case, it's a long story.
Now that school is about to start, I still owe 4,000 RMB. I can't even afford food, much less school fees. Boss, can you give me some salary in advance so that I can celebrate the new year? "
"It's only the end of September now. There is still half a year until the new year."
Ai Qing looked at him expressionlessly. After a long time, she took out her mobile phone. "How much do you want?"
Huai Shi's eyes suddenly lit up and he leaned forward. "Hey, give me 5,000 or 6,000 RMB. I'll pay you back when I get my salary."
Beep!
"4,000 RMB in Alipay."
Ai Qing indifferently put away her mobile phone. "This is your basic salary for this month. Take it well. Unless there are other temporary tasks, you have to rely on it to survive until the 15th of next month."
"A monthly salary of 4,000 RMB!"
Huai Shi was a little happy. In the past, he played piano in the bar for the orphanage. How could he have so much money?
"Oh, it just so happens that Old Liu is going to be discharged tomorrow. I can treat him to a meal."
"When did your relationship become so good?"
"Ha, are you jealous?" Huai Shi began to get carried away. "The friendship between men is so simple."
"Is it?"
Ai Qing calmly took a sip of coffee and asked casually, "So, have you thought about how to explain to him that you burned the car he bought with a loan of more than a million RMB?"
"…"
Soon, after watching Huai Shi leave the office with a sorrowful expression, Ai Qing finally ushered in a rare peace.
In the silence, she sighed and looked at the huge amount of funds on the bank page on the computer screen — a total of 3.4 million USD.
Forget it.
Let's not tell him about the bounty on the Red Gloves for the time being.
.
.
"How did a good house become a haunted house?"
Huai Shi stood at the door of his house with his hands on his hips. He looked at the surrounding lush and tall trees, the green moss on the walls, and the Boston Ivy.
Behind the rusty door, the courtyard was full of blooming wildflowers and green grass. The broken statue reflected the white light under the sun …
"No matter how I look at it, the scenery is beautiful and the sun is shining!"
After Huai Shi spat at the people on the Internet who made random lists, he selectively ignored how gloomy his house was at night and shook his head as he pushed open the squeaky door.
"I'm back!"
No one responded, only the sharp sound of the door slowly closing behind him.
Did you see that? How considerate! Even the door is fully automatic!
Are there other places? Are there? Are there?
The people who said that such a good place was a haunted house must have a bad conscience.
After Huai Shi snorted, he stepped on the squeaky floor, pushed open the front door of the house, and returned to the dusty hall. Then he picked up the cup on the table and drank two mouthfuls of hot water before going back to his room to pack the things he needed for school.
However, for a guy like him who basically relied on guessing in cultural classes, the third year of high school was basically equivalent to giving up on the classes. Instead, he was preparing the materials and teaching materials for the professional performance exam next month.
The professional performance certificate of ABRSM could be used as a diploma in most countries in the world. With this in hand, as long as the exam results were not terrible to the point where it was unbearable to look at, it should not be a problem to get a letter from an art university.
"So, does this really mean anything to you now?" Crow asked.
"Huh?" Huai Shi was puzzled.
Crow asked again: "Do you think a diploma, for a Ascender, is meaningful?"
"Ascenders don't need to eat? Don't Ascenders need to work? "Huai Shi rolled his eyes:" Do you think money will fall from the sky just by sitting at home? "
"… …"
Crow sighed: "What I mean is, for Ascenders, most people don't have to worry about money. Although it's not to the point of being rich, it's definitely not a problem to have food and clothing. "
"How do Ascenders get their money?" Huai Shi glanced at her: "Murder and arson? What's the difference between that and robbery? Can't they live peacefully and make a living? "
To be honest, although the Astronomy Society did give him a very generous salary, and even if he did nothing every month, he could still get a basic salary of four thousand yuan. However, if he thought about it with his brain, he would know how dangerous it would be when he had to work.
Just look at Yoo Dong-ri.
A male prostitute who gave up a good life and came to be his bodyguard, and then something happened! Not only was he forced to join the old ladies' Sunset Glow Yangko Group, but he was also stabbed in the back by a traitor.
If Huai Shi had any feelings about the world of Ascenders these days, it was only one word: danger.
A large number of border relics with unknown functions, unknown threats, and unknown uses were scattered in the Modern Realm. Everyone had different soul abilities and strange stigmata that had merged into the bodies of high-level Ascenders …
Every single one of them was enough to easily kill someone.
Even Yoo Dong-ri, a male prostitute who sold his face, could use his great beauty (self-proclaimed) to seduce people to the point that they forgot to breathe, causing them to suffocate to death.
As for himself, he was just a weak, pitiful, and helpless negative-energy generator.
Just giving a half-crippled Red Glove the finishing blow almost took his life several times.
Risking his life?
Forget it.
He should find a way to become financially independent as soon as possible, then quit his job at the Astronomy Society and honestly work towards his dream of playing piano in Vienna.
At worst, he could just be a music teacher!
"… Although the life of Ascenders may be dangerous for most people, there are also people who earn their own living. Don't think that all Ascenders in the world are bandits, okay?"
Crow sighed helplessly and raised his phone with one claw: "Look at this news first."
"What the hell?"
Huai Shi leaned over and looked at the manuscript of tomorrow's news: "Rome Auction House Breaks Record, Dusk Lineage Fifth Grade Stigmata Nidhogg with forty-three … One, two, three, damn, why are there so many zeros!"
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