“Woof!”

The bark

left Boss Zhou unsure how to respond.

Should he continue with a polite tone to negotiate, or a strong attitude to bargain?

Or perhaps,

bark back at it?

Lao Zhang turned and looked at the xiezhi (mythical creature that can distinguish right from wrong) that had just walked out from behind him.

"Boss, it hates you a lot."

Lao Zhang spoke while picking up the iron chain on the ground and putting it on the xiezhi.

This action surprised Zhou Ze for a moment.

How long had it been, and Lao Zhang had already progressed to being able to treat the xiezhi like this?

It was really too unreal.

After putting the chain on the xiezhi, Lao Zhang looked up at Zhou Ze and said:

"Actually, there is no xiezhi anymore, Boss. It’s long gone. To be precise, it’s long disappeared."

"It's not dead."

The xiezhi had survived an attack from the Xuan Yuan Sword.

"It's not dead, but..."

Lao Zhang paused, seemingly organizing his words to explain to his boss.

"Boss, you can understand it as a kind of instinct."

"Instinct?"

"Like the guests who used to come to the bookstore every night, it's a state of soul, but the situation here with the xiezhi is more complicated.

I only realized it just now, after truly merging with it.

Its true self is not here at all. At first, I was still looking for it, but I couldn't find it. Gradually, I confirmed that it was already gone.

It has become the law, become the rule. Boss, I don't know if my description is accurate, but I heard Lawyer An talk to you about this kind of thing before.

The real xiezhi's consciousness is long gone. If it were still here, I wouldn't have been able to influence it just now."

Zhou Ze understood a bit and said, "Lao Zhang, do you mean that the current xiezhi is just a shell?"

When the main consciousness leaves or is absent, this shell generates consciousness, thereby creating an instinctive emergency response consciousness.

Zhou Ze suddenly frowned. He seemed to have grasped something. A light flashed in his brain, but when he tried to grab it again, he couldn't.

"Yes, a shell, a terrifying shell, but without an owner."

Lao Zhang reached out and stroked the xiezhi's head. The xiezhi also made a dissatisfied sound towards Lao Zhang, but it was much gentler than when it faced Zhou Ze.

"Boss, I'm not the xiezhi, and it's not really the xiezhi either. Its existence is more likely due to the xiezhi's own hatred and anger towards you.

It can be called a kind of vengeful spirit. Therefore, the xiezhi attacks you, Boss. It instinctively hates you and wants to kill you, it's just an expression of its hatred."

"I'm a little dizzy." Zhou Ze reached out and held his forehead, while making a pause gesture, and asked, "Lao Zhang, can you control the xiezhi now?"

If Lao Zhang could still control the xiezhi now, then the current crisis could be resolved.

As the saying goes, when the cat's away, the mice will play.

But Lao Zhang shook his head and said, "Boss, all I can do is this much. In fact, this iron chain can't restrain it for too long. What I can influence is also limited."

"So, there's no hope?"

"There should be a way, Boss."

Lao Zhang lowered his head and looked at the xiezhi under him,

"Maybe it's because my perspective is different from yours, Boss, so some things are very clear to me, so clear that it feels a bit... too simple.

Back then, I also guarded the bookstore at night, and when you were unconscious, Boss, I also followed them to get rid of the evil spirits causing trouble in the world.

At that time, Lin Ke taught me two ways to deal with evil spirits:

One is to slap it to death and let its soul be scattered.

The other is to unravel its grievances, resolve its obsessions, and let it dissipate on its own.

Boss, I think you can try to dissolve its resentment towards you, then the xiezhi will no longer attack you.

In fact,

our time of existence is very short.

This shell is just a projection from top to bottom in the rules, a bit like raindrops falling on the ground, which will eventually be evaporated.

It just might take a little longer than the evaporation of water."

"Resolve its resentment, huh?"

Under Lao Zhang's detailed explanation, which was comparable to a professional tour guide, Zhou Ze suddenly felt that the super problem in front of him had been simplified into addition and subtraction for the first grade.

But,

how do you do addition and subtraction again?

The xiezhi hates him because it hates Ying Gou. The reason it hates Ying Gou is because Ying Gou beat it in the past, and Ying Gou also broke one of its horns.

This made the xiezhi's image in later years and in the yang world all become a unicorn.

It's equivalent to the xiezhi seeing itself as a unicorn every time it wants to go out for a walk after dinner, which is equivalent to being stimulated and humiliated again, equivalent to n times of secondary damage.

So,

the biggest problem is,

that horn?

But heaven knows where that blockhead threw its horn after breaking it,

and at this moment,

does he still have time to look for the lost horn of the divine beast?

Hiss...

Suddenly,

Zhou Ze took a deep breath,

he thought of it,

he thought of where the xiezhi's horn was!

………………

Sanya at night is less hot than during the day and has more tropical charm.

Lawyer An and Liu Chuyu rode shared bicycles on the road planted with coconut trees and rubber trees. The wind blew their hair, looking carefree.

After arriving at their destination, Lawyer An pointed to the bicycle and said to Liu Chuyu:

"Hide the bike in that corner. We still have to ride back later. Don't let anyone ride it away first."

"It's not very polite to do this."

"It's more polite than those who pry locks and lock them up, right? Just do what I tell you to do. Why do I find you talking so much nonsense lately?"

Liu Chuyu had no choice but to obediently carry the two bicycles and place them behind the wall.

Afterwards, Lawyer An swiped the access card through the iron gate, and then entered the warehouse area. After fingerprint verification, he pressed the elevator, but the elevator was a bit slow to come down.

While waiting for the elevator, Liu Chuyu took out his phone, and soon a girl's singing came from it, with thanks in the middle for the little brothers' planes (gifts on live streaming platforms).

"You like watching live streams?"

Lawyer An looked at Liu Chuyu with some surprise.

Liu Chuyu nodded and said, "Actually, before I died, I thought about being an outdoor streamer. I liked cycling when I was alive."

"Heh, I think you're quite suitable to pretend to be a big, cute girl in the ACG world."

When Liu Chuyu first came to the bookstore, his image could be described as a beggar version of Lady Xu.

He looks much more normal now, but he's still a bit effeminate.

"Heh." Liu Chuyu didn't dare to retort Lawyer An's ridicule, and said to himself: "It's okay, when I have nothing to do, I like to watch live streams, watch people sing, dance, chat, and so on."

"A layer of beauty filter, a layer of lens filter, a layer of blurring, a layer of this and a layer of that, it feels like there are more layers than the eighteen levels of hell. What's so good about it?"

"There are still some people who look good, and they should look good even without filters. I also follow some who broadcast with their faces covered. The meaning is that they don't want to show their faces for fear of being discovered by acquaintances and don't want to affect their lives."

"Bullshit, why cover your face if you're pretty?"

"Everyone's pursuit is different." Liu Chuyu said very seriously, "Brother An, you usually don't watch live streams, do you?"

"In the past, not only did I watch them, I also invested in live stream websites, small websites, just invested a few million to play around."

"Brother An really knows how to play." Liu Chuyu quickly offered a compliment.

"Play my ass. At that time, I thought that if I invested in this website, wouldn't it be easy to hook up with the female streamers in this website?"

"Isn't it?"

Lawyer An reached out and patted Liu Chuyu on the shoulder, and said earnestly:

"You people, you've always naively thought that the guilds, managers, shareholders, and so on in the live streaming industry get the first pick of the streamers, and the streamers must be sexually harassed in order to get to the top;

Don't worry, they're all yours, we won't fight with you. We really aren't interested in the streamers."

"Uh...is it that scary?"

"Heh, if you don't look at them in reality, you can't tell whether they're Barbie dolls or heavy-duty tanks;

Even grandmothers can turn into little lolis in live streams with a good sound card."

"Brother An, are you talking about Lin Ke?"

"You can say that if you want."

At this time,

the elevator came up, and Lawyer An and Liu Chuyu walked in.

After a while, the elevator door opened, and inside was a separate warehouse.

It seemed a bit empty inside because there was only one thing wrapped in plastic film in the central area.

"I'm very curious, Brother An, isn't Old Zhang living next door to you? Why did you call me here instead of calling him?"

"He's still heartbroken now. I'm not going to continue to touch that bad luck."

"Then now..."

"Oh dear, oh dear, I don't know if we'll be able to see the sun tomorrow. In my heart, I just want to come over and touch this precious throne more. Otherwise, if something really happens, and I haven't spent enough time with it, I won't be able to leave in peace, even if I die."

Liu Chuyu nodded thoughtfully.

"Baby, I'm here, I'm here."

Lawyer An took the initiative to walk up,

and lifted the plastic film covering it.

When the Bone Throne was revealed in front of Lawyer An, Lawyer An rubbed his hands excitedly, and his eyes began to shine:

"Baby, I haven't seen you for only two days, and I've missed you so much that I'm about to explode. Did you miss me?"

"Buzz!"

The still Bone Throne suddenly trembled.

"Wow, did you see it, did you see it!" Lawyer An immediately pointed at the Bone Throne and looked at Liu Chuyu, "It sensed me, it sensed me, oh my god, An Buqi is indeed destined, and can actually resonate with it,

Hahaha..."

Lawyer An smiled,

and his voice suddenly began to slowly decrease,

and the smile on his face gradually stiffened.

The Bone Throne was shaking more and more violently, and it was also emitting light. An ominous aura was gradually brewing.

Lawyer An suddenly felt a chill all over his body,

and at this time,

Liu Chuyu's flattery was half a beat late but still arrived:

"Brother An, really, it really seems like it's missing you so much that it's about to explode."

"..." Lawyer An.