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So he lit a cigarette and enjoyed the pleasant fresh air in the early morning.
Chapter 2: Scoring a hat trick
After the villa was set on fire, Jiang Lu couldn't help but yawn.
Although there were some memorable moments, it was not a great night.
Since coming to this world, he hasn't experienced a thrilling battle for a long time.
He is not from this world, but he is not a time traveler either.
But he was exiled.
He was once the lord of the underworld, but was plotted against by his closest confidants and sentenced to death after the throne was usurped. However, due to his powerful strength, he could not be completely killed even after his body was torn into pieces, so he was exiled to this world to reincarnate.
The good news is that before reincarnation, Jiang Lu used secret techniques to deceive the world and luckily regained control of part of his body, allowing it to reincarnate with him.
The bad news was that he didn't pay close attention to which part he got, and when he was born he scared the doctor who delivered him so much that he fainted. He was also considered an unlucky person and was thrown into an orphanage by his biological parents.
The good news is that this part of the body holds memories.
The bad news is that only a portion of it was saved.
The good news is that this section is the most crucial part, including his identity as the Lord of the Underworld, his elaborate plan for revenge after being ambushed, and the illustrated guide to the underworld's ghost girls.
The bad news is that there is nothing except memories. Except for the evil god's foundation brought back from the underworld, which is different from that of ordinary people, there is no difference between him and ordinary people.
In short, the plan was very thorough, but it failed at the first step of "gross development back to the peak".
Since the day he regained his memory at the age of three, Jiang Lu has been determined that he can return to the top, and maybe he can go even further after this experience. The future is promising.
But almost twenty years later, he is still a future warrior.
The only difference from twenty years ago is that he has changed from an orphan in an orphanage to a caregiver in an orphanage.
Fortunately, there are ghosts in this world, which allows Jiang Lu to always hold on to some hope.
But now he is no different from ordinary people, and even the weakest ghost can easily hurt him.
Of course, female ghosts are another matter.
It’s just a pity that after trying many times, these female ghosts not only failed to bring him transformation, help in his career, but they couldn’t even meet his emotional needs.
As such disappointments became more and more frequent, Jiang Lu gradually became numb.
Now, he is very close to giving up. Hunting tonight is just a pastime for him to relieve stress.
After stretching, Jiang Lu planned to go back to the orphanage.
The children should be awake by now, and it will be time for them to have breakfast soon. As a caregiver, he must be there.
Jiang Lu said to himself, "Yesterday, that fat guy secretly cursed me behind my back. I must go back and spit in his breakfast."
As he was thinking, his cell phone suddenly rang.
The person who called was the director of the orphanage. He always treated all the children in the orphanage as his own children, including Jiang Lu, who had evolved from an orphan to a caregiver but still called him Dad, and there was no sense of superior-subordinate relationship at all.
He was able to know so many clues about ghosts and monsters thanks to the dean.
Because the dean is a member of the exorcist team, there are always various documents about ghosts in his study. With just a quick peek, he can tell where new ghosts have appeared.
Then he would go to the scene and observe secretly. If it was a male ghost, nothing would happen. If it was a female ghost, he would strike hard!
As for why Jiang Lu didn't try to become an exorcist himself, it was naturally because he was so ordinary that he was not qualified to be selected by an organization that could train exorcists.
Because of this, he hated other exorcists except the dean.
The reason is that he knows more about ghosts than farmers know about rice, but he has no chance to do anything.
In contrast, those who are completely useless can receive generous treatment and even gain abilities that surpass ordinary people.
Not fair at all!
Jiang Lu answered the phone and pretended to have just woken up and said, "Hello? Dad, why are you calling me so early? I was dreaming that I was playing Landlord with Jesus and Tathagata. It's almost spring."
But the voice on the other end of the phone was unusually serious: "Where are you now?"
"In..." Jiang Lu looked around: "Ah, did you come into my room and find that I was not there? Actually, I didn't just wake up, I was taking a shit in the toilet."
"There's no one in the bathroom either. Where are you?"
Jiang Lu raised his eyebrows. Wow, you searched quite carefully. Then I can only use that trick!
Pretends there is no signal.
"Hello? What did you say? There's no signal in the bathroom. I can't hear you."
The voice on the other end of the phone was obviously more anxious. Regardless of whether Jiang Lu heard it or not, he shouted hysterically: "Did you peek at my email again? I warn you, if you sneak out to explore again, no matter where you are now, come back quickly. That place is the spirit realm, not the lonely ghosts of the past, but the spirit realm!!"
"What is...what is this?"
Jiang Lu's face was full of confusion. He seemed to hear the dean talking about something important in a serious tone, but in the second half, the sound on the phone became intermittent and he couldn't hear clearly at all.
When I took away the phone, the signal bars had turned into the word "No Service".
Jiang Lu scratched his face: "Really no signal? What you say is what you say, right?"
The gray-haired dean on the other end of the phone had a serious look on his face and pounded the armrest of the sofa with his fist.
"Damn it! Did he really go there?"
Last night, he received an email informing him that several novice exorcists were killed by ghosts in a villa in the northern suburbs of the city. He did not take it seriously at first. After all, the sacrifice of exorcists was nothing new, especially for novice exorcists who had just become exorcists. It was normal for them to fall into the hands of ghosts because of carelessness.
It wasn't until this morning when I found Jiang Lu was not in the bedroom again that I realized something was wrong.
A translucent panel suddenly appeared in front of the dean.
The above spiritual realm information has been updated——
[Spirit Realm "Family Portrait" is coming soon]
[Difficulty: A]
[Strategy level range: 1~30]
【Location: Northern Suburbs of Chishan City】
【Remarks: None】
Seeing this, the dean's expression was almost distorted: "A-level...A-level!! How could it be an A-level that could kill even a senior exorcist like me?!"
Gritting his teeth, the dean immediately set off, intending to rush to the northern suburbs.
"Now, I just hope you can hold on until I get here, you bastard!"
......
At the same time, Jiang Lu was standing there in a daze.
In the time it took to answer the phone call, the villa that was burning just now was now intact.
Not only is it intact, but compared to its previous dilapidated appearance, it now even looks like it has just been completed and is completely brand new.
Just when Jiang Lu was feeling very surprised, the door of the villa was pushed open with a creaking sound without any wind.
In the hall on the first floor of the villa, there were three bodies covered with white cloth.
One of the bodies was normal size, while the other two were very small, appearing to be an adult and two children.
The three bodies had one thing in common, that is, the white cloth on their heads was stained deep red.
A familiar-looking woman was leaning against the stair railing, her eyes empty and lifeless, as she slumped on the ground with an expressionless face.
Jiang Lu's expression suddenly became subtle.
He quietly came to the woman and said affectionately, "Madam, we meet again."
The woman was indifferent.
"Don't you recognize me?" Jiang Lu asked tentatively.
The woman still didn't respond.
Jiang Lu thought about it, stood up, walked to the three corpses, and dragged them over one by one.
When the white cloth covering the largest corpse was lifted, it was revealed that there was a male corpse inside.
The most terrifying thing is that he has no face!
The skin on his face looked as if it had been scraped off, full of pits and pits, and the bones of his eye sockets and mouth were even completely exposed to the air.
Jiang Lu remained calm and pointed at him and asked the woman: "Do you know him? He is your husband."
The woman's pupils shrank.
Jiang Lu seemed not to notice this and continued with the same action.
"Do you know him? He is your son."
The woman's expression gradually became ferocious.
"Do you know her? She is your daughter."
"Ahhhhh!!"
The woman suddenly let out a shrill scream, as if she had just come to her senses. She yelled incoherently with a face full of fear, "It wasn't me... It wasn't me!"
Jiang Lu hugged her and comforted her gently: "It's okay, it's all over. As long as I'm here, I won't let you recall these painful memories."
The woman's emotions gradually calmed down.
But he still spoke incoherently, as if he was mumbling: "It's not me..."
"Okay, okay, it's not you."
Jiang Lu whispered perfunctorily while trying to help her up.
The woman staggered several times but was unable to stand up.
Jiang Lu was getting a little impatient.
He simply put one hand through the woman's armpit to support her back, and used the other hand to support her legs and picked her up like a princess.
Then, following the route in memory, I climbed up the stairs step by step and returned to where the dream began.
Half an hour later, the woman was left on the bed.