Thunder is rolling, heavy rain is coming, and the nose is filled with an obscure earthy smell.

I opened my eyes and saw a gray sky, foggy like a catching net.

"The auspicious time has arrived, and the sacrificial ceremony begins now!"

The command to pronounce the verdict penetrated into my ears, and for a moment there was a suffocating silence in the air.

I got up in panic, looked around, and found myself on a high platform. There was a dense group of people standing under the platform, holding torches and staring at me in silence, with eyes that could kill people.

And I am that sacrifice.

"ah--"

I screamed and woke up from my dream, big beads of sweat soaked my clothes.

It's just a nightmare.

I gasped and sat up from the bed. I had long forgotten how many times I had met them in my dreams, but I would still be frightened every time I dreamed about them.

But that sacrifice ceremony was not just a nightmare of mine, it was a fact.

I was rescued from the altar by my parents when I was only eight years old.

The An family is a big family, and my clan members regard me as an unknown person.

Since I was born, my left eyeball has been completely white, with no black eyeball. No one dared to take me from the midwife’s arms. It was supposed to be a happy day, but the atmosphere at home was very heavy.

On the day of the sacrifice ceremony, my parents snatched me back despite the warnings of my tribe. Later, I heard that I was sacrificed to Emperor Fengdu, who specializes in accepting unlucky people like me.

I washed my face with cold water and put on a pair of contact lenses. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I looked no different from a normal person.

Today, there will be an An family member sent by my father to take care of me in the store, but like me, he is also an 'eccentric' in the family.

If he had been here yesterday, he wouldn't have let the man in leather steal the guqin. Let's not talk about whether the man in leather is a human or a ghost. The price of this piano must be at least six figures. How can I explain this to my father?

.

I walked downstairs and opened the security door. The sun was blazing and it was another beautiful day.

"Squeak - squeak -"

There was a sharp screech of brakes from behind.

I looked back and saw a large jeep that was two heads taller than me parked in front of the store. A man got out of the car wearing sunglasses and pulling a suitcase. The man had broad shoulders and long legs, cold white skin, and was wearing pure clothes.

The black Chinese tunic suit has a refreshing and independent feeling.

If you look closely, he is carrying a long, tightly wrapped object behind him, but I can't tell what exactly he is carrying.

He looked up at the sign on my store door, opened the door and walked in.

Yiding City is more than 900 kilometers away from my hometown. I came here to escape from my previous life in Anjia. Naturally, my parents didn't trust me, so they arranged for someone to take care of me.

But rather than saying that he came to take care of me, it was more like he found a clerk for me unilaterally.

The man took off his sunglasses and looked at me. He had cold eyebrows and a mole on his left eyelid. He looked arrogant and awe-inspiring.

"Hello, my name is An Sheng, your father told me."

Before I could finish speaking, he pushed the suitcase forward and interrupted: "My name is Anhao. I am a Taoist priest from Yuren Mountain. I have been entrusted by my father to take care of you."

It turns out that this man is still a Taoist priest. If you look closely, you can see that he has a bit of immortality and Taoism in him.

"How did my dad know that you are also in Yiding City and that you are so close to me? It's really a fate." I put on a smile and stretched out my hand to make a 'please' gesture. "My dear brother, please sit down first and I'll pour it for you."

A cup of tea.”

An Hao was not polite. He sat on the sofa and said casually with a very cold voice: "Isn't it hard to find a stranger in the An family? Apart from you, it's me."

I chuckled lightly and handed him the tea, wondering why the clerk my father introduced to me had a weirder temper than me.

"2,000 a month, including food and accommodation."

After saying this condition, I regretted it. If Anhao disagreed, I would have to recruit another clerk, and the salary would not be doubled.

"You don't need to pay, uncle has already paid me the wages."

I was slightly startled. I didn’t expect my father to be so thoughtful. I smiled and continued, “Good brother, let me take you to the room on the second floor first.”

"Wait a minute." Anhao put the long package he was carrying on the table, "Take a look at this first."

An Hao unwrapped the long package on the table, which contained an ancient sword and guqin.

"This is the Spring and Autumn Guqin in my shop. It was just stolen yesterday." I stood up suddenly, then leaned down and carefully observed the Guqin in front of me, and confirmed that this was the Spring and Autumn Guqin that was stolen by the man in leather yesterday. "

It was stolen, why is it here with you?"

"Sure enough, it was stolen." An Hao muttered to himself, turned around and glanced at me lightly, "This piano is an heirloom of the ancestors of the An family, you don't know it, right?"

I frowned and my thoughts swirled. I found this guqin in my father’s collection room. I thought it was a fake at first and wanted to put it in the hall for decoration. However, I was sorting through the antiques before opening the store and discovered that this guqin was actually a genuine one.

But as for it being an heirloom of the An family, I have never heard of it, and it would not be passed on to me anyway.

I shook my head and explained: "I thought this was dad's collection."

Anhao was silent for a long time, and then asked me: "You should be able to tell that he is not human."

My heart skipped a beat and I asked, "Are you talking about the man who stole the guqin?"

An Hao nodded, picked up the ancient sword that was also placed on the table and held it to his chest. The scabbard of this ancient sword was dark red. I have never seen a sword made of this kind of material. Just looking at the craftsmanship, it looks like an old item.

, but looking at how new it is, it doesn’t look like an antique.

"He is the soul of this guqin." An Hao was calm, sitting up straight and looking at the door, "He came quite quickly."

I followed An Hao's eyes and looked towards the door. The man in leather clothes from yesterday was walking leisurely from across the street, holding a half-eaten apple in his hand, looking very leisurely and contented.

Anhao held the sword and folded his hands in front of his chest, then stood up. I followed behind him, but the man in leather clothes in front of me didn't look like a spirit.

The spirit of things is the spirit that comes from all things. It is different from the human soul. It can also be understood that an object will give birth to its own spirit under the precipitation of time. Simply put, as time goes by, things will become refined.

I remember that the spirits I met before were all attached to the main body. I have never seen a spirit body that can survive without the main body.

The man in leather clothes opened the door and walked in. He was startled when he saw An Hao in front of him. Then he took a bite of the green apple and said with a smile: "You two are really a team."

This ghost obviously came with bad intentions.

I hid behind Anhao, showed my head and asked him: "Why are you still here?"

The man in leather clothes smiled mysteriously at me, the corners of his mouth became wider and wider, and he said in a drawl: "Don't be afraid, I'm here to kill you this time."


Chapter completed!