Chapter 142 Seeing an acquaintance
Two men who were burning paper started fighting.
The cause was that one of them was burning paper while muttering, "Dad, I'm burning some money for you so you can buy some good food and drinks downstairs. Don't eat rotten fruits."
Then the man who was burning paper next to him was arranging fruits as offerings, and the fruits he bought happened to be not as big as the one the man was talking about.
His desire to win suddenly arose, and he immediately shouted louder, "Dad, I'll give you some money so you can buy a gun underground and beat those pretentious dealers."
When the man heard this, it became a provocation, so he said even louder, "Dad, buy a cannon and use it to fire at the guns."
I'll reply right away. Dad, you bought Dongfeng Express and the mission will be accomplished. No matter if they are alive or dead, anyone who is pretending to be cool will be blown up.
So the two families started fighting.
Yu Ning and Xiao Kui were squeezed in the crowd of onlookers. When they heard the reason for the fight, they frowned.
A man remains a boy until he dies, how childish!
The two men were fighting each other, and the women following them were pulling each other's hair.
"The police are here!" Xiao Kui shouted, but the two groups remained unmoved and continued fighting each other.
No one is afraid at all.
Xiaokui black line.
Northerners are tough, and their reputation is well-deserved.
"Burn paper at an auspicious time to bring good luck to your ancestors. If you miss the opportunity now, you will regret it for a whole year!" After Yu Ning shouted, the two groups stopped fighting and looked at Yu Ning in unison.
Yu Ning calmly took out her Taoist certificate from her pocket.
"It was issued by the state. I am a regular Taoist priest."
This sentence is more useful than anything else at this moment.
They started burning paper like in a competition to see who could burn faster.
The people watching nearby looked at her curiously. Yu Ning nodded to everyone and left with Xiaokui.
An old lady caught up and asked Yu Ning.
"Little girl, this building is too weird, you'd better not go there."
"Auntie, what's going on in this shopping mall?" Yu Ning asked.
Northerners are all warm-hearted, and it is very natural for them to strike up a conversation with people on the street. The auntie quickly told Yu Ning the whole story of this shopping mall.
Every city has its own urban legend, and the urban legend of this city is the shopping mall that Yu Ning is going to next.
Legend has it that this was originally a mass grave dug by the Japanese devils. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was converted into a hospital. Later, it was demolished and a shopping mall was built here.
This mall is also weird.
Several bosses have been replaced, and whoever is in charge is unlucky.
The first owner even died in a car accident when the foundation was just being built.
The second boss did build the building, but the mall was only in business for one year before he went bankrupt and jumped off the building.
The third boss probably heard about the bad experiences of the previous two bosses, so after taking over, he immediately hired a few experts to adjust the feng shui of the place.
But it still couldn't escape the fate of bankruptcy, and I don't know if there was something wrong with the people he hired, but after the boss adjusted the feng shui, many strange things happened in the mall.
For example, night watchmen have seen models walking around the floors in the middle of the night.
For example, the radio in this shopping mall often breaks down and plays songs in the middle of the night.
The third boss only worked for the building for a few months before selling it at a low price.
For a long time, no one dared to take over the mall and it remained idle.
But something even more bizarre happened. During the time when the mall was idle, every time someone passed by at night, they could hear a lot of crying inside.
"A year ago, a male corpse was suddenly found in this mall. It was a boss who failed in business. He came to our place and jumped off the building and died."
"What happened next?" Xiao Kui asked. "Then, I don't know what method the higher-ups used, but they found another boss to buy this place. The renovation was completed last month, but during the renovation, something went wrong again. A wall collapsed, killing many renovation workers."
Yu Ning understood.
So those who are burning paper at the intersection are the family members of the decorators.
"If it's so weird, why is it still open? Just tear it down." Xiao Kui felt a little regretful. If she had known this place was so complicated, she should not have taken it.
Wouldn't this implicate Ning?
"It's easy for you to say that. The higher-ups don't care about that now. How can they tear down such a big mall? So, you'd better not go there."
"Auntie, do you know what I'm here for?" Yu Ning asked.
"It's for shooting short videos. Look, look ahead." The old lady pointed forward, and Yu Ning and Xiao Kui looked over.
In front of the mall, there were a bunch of anchors, some holding selfie sticks and some coming with their teams.
For a while, family members and old friends came one after another.
Yu Ning was speechless.
Why do I see these people everywhere?
When I was dealing with the Fruit of Appetite, I saw quite a few anchors, and now that I’m in the North, there are so many more!
Apart from cockroaches, the only person who can reach a consensus between the North and the South is the anchor, right?
"Why did they choose this day?" Xiao Kui asked.
The old lady gave a sinister smile.
"Because today is the day when those renovation workers burn the seventh day of mourning."
A small breeze blew through the square, making Yu Ning feel cold and uncomfortable.
"Who are these people?" Xiao Kui pulled Yu Ning and quickly walked through the group of anchors.
In order to gain traffic, these people went to the places where urban legends happened to film and live-stream their jokes. Xiao Kui really wanted to call all the dead spirits over to scare them, so as to prevent these people from trying to get any traffic without any bottom line.
But it's strange, although the feng shui here is not good, Xiaokui didn't see any dirty things along the way, and he didn't see any souls of the decorators who had accidents.
"I've already reported down there a long time ago." Yu Ning was not surprised.
"If the people above don't care, why won't the people below care too?" Xiao Kui complained.
"The reasons are complicated. Some of them are about passing the buck, with unclear responsibilities, and some of them are about balance," Yu Ning answered her.
In fact, Xiaokui had asked her master this question before.
Every city has its own urban legend, sometimes it is a real estate project, sometimes it is a place.
Weird things happen one after another, but the three realms seem to have reached a consensus and let them develop.
"Cause and effect are already very troublesome to calculate, just like a company's bad debts, when they accumulate to the point where they don't know how to deal with them, they create a hotspot for urban legends and write off those unclear causes and effects through supernatural events—"
Yu Ning's words came to an abrupt end.
She thought of the information that Yinchai Laoliu had accidentally revealed before.
Those fruits of unknown origin are suspected to be experimental products made by the above. Is it possible that they are also for achieving a certain balance as the urban legend says?
This thought flashed through Yu Ning's mind. Just as she was about to carefully consider the possibility of this matter, the cat in her arms suddenly cried towards somewhere ahead.
"Meow!" Ningning, look!
Yu Ning followed his gaze.
At the entrance of the building, a slender figure was walking slowly inside.
He is Yu Ning's acquaintance.