There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning.

I got up at 9 o'clock, washed and dressed, and sat in the room waiting for Lao Chen to pick me up.

Lao Chen arrived just after 10 a.m.

I went downstairs, got into his car, and headed towards my destination.

The place we are going to used to be the most prosperous trading district in the city and is very famous.

There is a 49-story skyscraper there. More than thirty years ago, this building was the tallest building in the city. It is said that you can see the sea from the top floor.

But soon, the surrounding high-rise buildings were built one after another, and it was no longer possible to show how tall it was.

This building, from the 1st to the 10th floor, is a business area, with thousands of shops once opened.

In the 1980s and 1990s, this place was the busiest. As long as you walked into this building, you could buy anything you wanted. People used to call this building a "department building."

However, after entering the 21st century, online shopping became popular, and the shops in the building quickly closed down.

Within a few years, this building became an empty building.

Later, the building was forced to be auctioned. It was difficult to sell the entire building, so the floors were divided and sold to some wealthy people across the country.

Therefore, this building is in chaos, and most of the ones that can survive are some high-end clubs.

For example, massage and foot washing, etc., I won’t go into details here. Anyway, you all know better than me...

The destination for Lao Chen and I was this once prosperous department store. It is said that Mr. Qian rented a place on the top floor to perform rituals for Lao Chen.

After parking the car, Lao Chen and I got on the elevator. When we reached the 48th floor, the elevator opened the door automatically.

Strangely, we didn’t find the 49th floor button in the elevator room?

We are going to the top floor, which is the 49th floor, and it has stopped just one floor away. How do we go up?

I had to get off the elevator and ask a cleaner, and then I found out that if you want to go to the top floor, you have to take a freight elevator, which is an elevator used for transporting goods.

The freight elevator was far less clean and hygienic than the passenger elevator, but there was no one inside, so we took the freight elevator from the 48th floor to the next floor, and then we arrived at the real 49th floor, which is the top floor of the entire department store.

In fact, I visited the department store when I was a child, more than once.

However, I have only wandered around the ground floor, but I have never been up to the top floor. This is the first time.

When you get off the elevator, there is a very conspicuous sign in front of you.

It turns out that the area on the top floor is not very big. Although when viewed from below, the whole building seems to be rectangular, but that is actually a visual error.

In fact, the building is a trapezoid.

Just like a pyramid, it is wider at the bottom and narrower at the top. At the top, the area is hardly more than one-third of the area on the bottom floor.

After taking a look at the sign, it turns out that the area on the top floor is called the "Astronomy Enthusiasts Club".

This is not surprising, because the building is very tall, and it must be very clear to see the stars with an astronomical telescope on the top of the building.

Then it seems normal for someone to buy this place and set up an "astronomy club".

Walk along the corridor inside...

I saw that there were many rooms with closed doors, some door handles were wrapped with red threads, and some had some strange yellow paper stuck on the door, which looked like talismans.

There are also sliding metal anti-theft doors installed on the outside of those doors. The style of this anti-theft door looks like a scene from a Hong Kong horror movie.

Moreover, in the corridor, I can still smell strange smells from time to time, like the smell of burning incense candles and paper money.

Weird?!

Since this is an "Astronomy Enthusiasts Club", why does it make me feel like this is more like a horror movie set?!

Along the way, I did see some astronomical telescopes on the corridor, but those telescopes were just there, covered with dust. They must have not been used for a long time, just like props placed there.

Although the area on the top floor is not particularly large, Lao Chen and I were a little confused, especially because the atmosphere here was quite weird!

I raised my hand and rubbed my arm, and asked Old Chen to call Old Man Qian and ask where he was.

Old Chen was also a little nervous, so he took out his mobile phone and dialed a number. Not long after, I saw Old Man Qian walking over from the other end of the corridor.

Neither Lao Chen nor I recognized that person was Old Man Qian at first sight?!

Because this time, he was wearing an apricot Taoist robe and a square Taoist hat on his head.

Old Man Qian was already very thin, about 1.7 meters tall. When he put on his Taoist robe and poked at him, he really looked a bit like an immortal.

"Qian... Taoist Master Qian..." Old Chen said more respectfully.

"Jushi Chen, Pindao is being polite," Old Man Qian clasped his hands in a polite manner, "Please follow Pindao this way..."

After changing his clothes, old man Qian's tone seemed to have changed, and he kept saying "poor". It made me and Lao Chen feel like we had traveled through time?!

Follow Old Man Qian to a room where there is also a sliding security door.

However, the door is open.

He waved and asked us to follow him in...

Lao Chen and I stood at the door and didn't dare to rush in directly. Instead, we stopped together and looked inside...

The room was not big, and it was indeed decorated like a dojo. There was an altar against the wall, with some strange things placed on it, and three thick incense sticks were lit.

Unexpectedly, old man Qian was not the only one in the room, but there were two other men, both of whom were wearing gray robes.

At first I thought the two of them were assistants hired by Old Man Qian, but one of the younger assistants kept winking at me, and I ended up staring at his face carefully...

Only then did I realize that this guy was actually Er Meow. Then I looked at the other assistant, and sure enough, the other one was Uncle Meow.

It seems that after Old Man Qian took over Old Chen's big job, he was too busy for himself, so he invited Uncle Meow and his son to help.

But this is normal. They are brothers. Naturally, everyone should make money together. Wouldn’t the wealth go to outsiders?

It seems that Uncle Meow is fine and has been discharged from the hospital. The problem is not serious, so I feel relieved.

This room is 20 square meters at most and is a small square room.

There is a window on one wall, a circular window.

The curtains were open, and a strong beam of sunlight shone in, forming a beam of light.

The light beam shines directly on the ground, forming a large circular aperture on the ground.

In the circular aperture illuminated by the sun, Old Man Qian had already made a layout and placed a futon made of hay in the center.

There was also white powder sprinkled around the futon.

I don't know what the white powder is, but I can smell the smell of Wangwang snow cake, so I guess it may be ground and fried glutinous rice flour.
Chapter completed!