Cataclysm Chapter 28: Ye Family Estate No.444 1; Live Adventure Broadcast

Chapter 28: Ye Family Estate No.444 1; Live Adventure Broadcast

Translated by Shiya of Exiled Rebels Scanlations 

Editor: Addis

 

When Du Shuo came out with his luggage, Chen Yang just came back to the room after dealing with the infant spirit. As soon as they met, Du Shuo held onto him, and they went out of the hotel together, one hand grasped in the other, the other hand holding his luggage.

After Zhang Qiudao solved the matter of He Tianna and Dragon Knife Mound, he relaxed by playing his games and looked up to see Du Shuo and Chen Yang. So he asked, “Brother Chen, are you leaving the city?”

Chen Yang said, “We are going to the former house with the courtyard and then we will stop by Q city for fun. Do you want to come?”

Zhang Qiudao shook his head, “I am having a good time in the hostel.” Most importantly, he didn’t want to see Du Shuo and Chen Yang throwing dog food at him.

Chen Yang didn’t know what he was doing with Du Shuo that counted as dog food. Instead, Chen Yang advised him, “There are two Sandong Wulei (2nd grade) Tianshis and two Wulei Tianshis there. Wouldn’t it be helpful for you to get a promotion if you know them? Don’t you want to go?”

Zhang Qiudao caught a glimpse of the tightly clasped hands of Chen Yang and Du Shuo from the corner of his eye and shook his head firmly, “No.”

Chen Yang sighed, “Okay. Then you can stay here alone to deal with the after procedures of He Tianna and Gao Tianliang’s requests.”

“No problem. By the way, Mao Xiaoli said that she was going to have her exam soon, and she hopes you can go back before she takes it.”

“Does she want me to go back and cheer her on?” Chen Yang thought of Mao Xiaoli, a lively and young girl, who always called him brother. Her relatives were not often around, so it was normal for someone to want a cheer squad on such an important thing as a promotion examination.

“No,” Zhang Qiudao continued, “Mao Xiaoli just wants to have the examination together with you and if you fail, her psychological impact will be smaller.”

Chen Yang was speechless.

Pulling Du Shuo away without saying a word, Chen Yang had decided that he shouldn’t care for these disappointing colleagues. Du Shuo lifted strands of Chen Yang’s hair and said, “It’s a bit long. Go get a haircut.”

Chen Yang muttered, “Okay. I haven’t cut it for two months. Are you going too?”

“No.”

Chen Yang nodded, not dissuaded by his rejection. He had never seen Du Shuo cut his hair. It seemed that the length of his hair had always remained the same. Maybe the growth of ghosts had stopped.

Du Shuo asked, “You don’t have to prepare for the Tianshi examination?”

“No. I’m ready.” Chen Yang waved his hand, “It’s totally okay for me to become a Mengwei Tianshi, grade four. Just enough to beat Mao Xiaoli’s grade five. I will see if she still dares to find me for mental balance.”

Du Shuo’s eyes were dark and deep, “Nothing to do?”

“There is something.” Chen Yang fessed up with his elaborate travel strategy, “I’m ready. Three days is enough to see all the scenic spots in this city.”

“Looking at flowers on horseback.”

“It’s enough to just have a look.” Chen Yang didn’t feel ashamed of that, “The main point is to eat. You like spicy food. Believe me, this is your paradise.”

Du Shuo nodded, “I see.”

Chen Yang focused on his travel itinerary, but he didn’t notice the special tones when Du Shuo answered. If he had listened carefully to Du Shuo’s tone, he would never think of sight-seeing but just pack up and go back to the branch office as soon as possible. Even if he had to go back immediately for an assessment, he would not waste time to sight-see.

Back in the antique old house, the three visitors and Kou Xuanling were all there, sitting on stone chairs in the courtyard, chatting and laughing around the stone table. When they turned their heads and saw the two, they said their greetings. Chen Yang and Du Shuo walked over and sat down.

Meng Fu poured a cup of concentrated tea for each of them, and then said, “The follow-up affairs of the ritual will be handed over to the person in charge of the Taoist Association in Q City, and the ghost gate of Dragon Knife Mound has been closed. In the future, there will be no more accidental deaths there, but the Yin aura and resentment will not disperse in the next two years. It’s easy to get sick if pedestrians go there, but we have explained the situation to the local police station.”

Chen Yang looked down at the tea in front of him; concentrated tea was bitter. He glanced at Du Shuo, who picked up his teacup and took a sip, apparently satisfied. Du Shuo liked to drink bitter tea. If he was satisfied, it meant that the tea was bitter.

“Chen Daoyou?”

Chen Yang turned back to him and said, “Just call me Chen Yang.”

Meng Fu laughed and said, “This is all thanks to you and Zhang Xiao Daoyou for finding out the incident with Dragon Knife Mound in time. This has saved the country from damage.”

Chen Yang quickly waved his hand, “It’s mainly thanks to the cooperation of the three temple heads and all the Tianshis involved that the evil spirits in Dragon Knife Mound were dealt with and the Ghost Gate closed.” He didn’t agree on his merits in this incident, and did not say a word about him blocking the Female Rakshasa’s blow for Meng Fu at that time.

One was that Chen Yang felt he had not done a lot in this incident. During the whole process he was on the sidelines. Even during the ritual, he was not participating. Secondly, the reason he did not mention saving Meng Fu, was that the transcending ritual was not easy, they had to use a lot of power, and even had to invite the Gods to attend. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even have the chance to stop the Female Rakshasa and save Meng Fu. If not for that, Meng Fu and Yi Wei could cooperate and deal with the Female Rakshasa easily.

Meng Fu said, “I have written all the things in the report to the Taoist Association. They will evaluate your merits and virtues according to what you have done. According to what you have done recently, it is more than enough for you to be promoted to Wulei (3rd). It’s just that Tianshi’s promotion has strict regulations, we can’t be too exceptional. You have not received a Tianshi identification before. You need to be granted an identification first and then promoted. This is already an exceptional promotion. But at most, we can only allow you to be promoted without having to pass the examination.”

In other words, Chen Yang directly passed the examination of getting a Tianshi identification, and the examination for being a sixth or seventh grade Dugong, and was able to directly take the examination of Mengwei, and then he would be rated as a grade five or grade four Tianshi according to his situation.

Not having to recite the Dugong mantra, Chen Yang’s eyes lit up, “This Chen Yang, thanks you, master Meng.”

Meng Fu nodded, quite pleased. It was also a good fortune for the Tianshi world to see a young Ghost Arts practitioner. He said, “Review the classics that need to be tested well. If you want, we can give you the examination now.”

Chen Yang thanked the other party and said, “I’d better wait until I get back to the branch office.”

Meng Fu stopped talking about it and held up the cup to signal Chen Yang to drink tea. Chen Yang glanced again at Du Shuo, who remained unmoved. He could only take a sip of his tea. Although the strong tea had a sweet and fragrant aftertaste, the bitter taste almost made Chen Yang’s face crinkle.

Putting down the teacup, he felt Du Shuo’s hand covering his left hand. Chen Yang was stunned for a moment. Before he could react, Du Shuo’s hand left. But in the palm of his own hand, was a candy that had already had its wrapper peeled off.

Chen Yang felt like he was cheating as he put the candy into his mouth like a squirrel, smiling.

Meng Fu and Yi Wei stood up and said, “We are going back to our rooms to make up for lost sleep. We are old and can’t stay up at night.” Su Li also stood up, and felt that his skin would get worse if he stayed up late. He had to go back to rehydrate.

As a result, the three people left together, Chen Yang, Du Shuo and Kou Xuanling were still there.

Kou Xuanling said “Cao Tianshi has been found”.

“He got caught?”

“No. What they found was his body, which was buried in the coffin under Dragon Knife Mound. The reason why the Female Rakshasa was born early was that Cao Tianshi killed people when we were not paying attention, filling the eight coffins with corpses and blood, but he was also killed by the evil spirits and died in the coffin, becoming the eighth corpse in the coffin.”

Chen Yang said, “Serves him right.”

After a long hesitation, Kou Xuanling asked, “Are all the meals… in the branch office really prepared by you?”

Chen Yang was silent for a long time and replied, “Yes.” He looked calm and sincere, without any lies.

Kou Xuanling nodded, thinking. Then he said, “I’ll go back to my room to pay respects to Zushiye, so I’ll leave first.” Then he left in a hurry, as if his Zushiye desperately needed his incense.

Seeing Kou Xuanling leaving, Chen Yang laughed, “Brother Du, you are going to lose one subordinate, and my branch office will recruit a new subordinate.”

Du Shuo pinched Chen Yang’s neck and pulled him back to his room. Closing the door, Du Shuo casted a silencing spell and put down their luggage. Chen Yang didn’t leave the house all day. In the middle of the day, Du Shuo pulled Chen Yang to get some sun while still letting Chen Yang lay on his chest.

Du Shuo chuckled, “Not sight-seeing?”

Chen Yang didn’t even have the strength to bite Du Shuo. It was too late for sight-seeing. Later, he was pushed to his limits, so he scolded Du Shuo with tears. He felt that he was very vicious in scolding already, but Du Shuo became more excited and bullied him more fiercely. He slept till noon. If Du Shuo didn’t pull him up, he could sleep another afternoon. He turned around and didn’t talk to Du Shuo. His face was buried on his shoulders and his eyes closed.

At this time, they were in an inn in one ancient town. There were many ancient towns in Q city. Now the ancient town they were in was a national 4A tourist destination. Although it was not the peak tourist season, the streets were still full of people.

The streets of the ancient town were lined with antique buildings and the roads were paved with bluestones. They were on the second floor of the inn. Looking down, they could see the whole street.

“Not talking?”

Chen Yang sulked, “How can you bully me like this?”

“It’s not bullying. I love you and this is just adoration,” Du Shuo bit Chen Yang’s ear.

Chen Yang said, “I want to travel, I want to eat special food.”

“Aren’t we seeing the view of Q city right now?” Du Shuo picked up the noodles and moved them to Chen Yang’s mouth, “And you are having Q City special noodles.”

Chen Yang grouched, “It’s not spicy at all. How can you call that special?”

Du Shuo said, “Be good, you can eat spicy food in two days.”

“I want to go back to the Branch Office for the assessment right now.” Sulking as he said this sentence, to vent anger he bit off the noodles hard, chewed a few mouthfuls and found the noodles chewy and refreshing, they were very delicious. After a few more bites, he still didn’t want to move. He was paralyzed and ordered Du Shuo, “I want to drink soup.”

“Here.” Du Shuo fed him soup, “You don’t want to continue viewing Q City, and don’t want to taste all the food in Q city?”

“No. Now I just want to be promoted to Tianshi.”

“All right.” Du Shuo sounded very apologetic. He thought his little wife was becoming more and more adorable. Especially when he was in bed, when he was forced to the limit, he would swear softly and sob. It was so very cute. “After the assessment, you can go on a tour.”

Chen Yang was alert, “I don’t want it.”

Du Shuo chuckled, “I am not tricking you this time. We’ll really travel.”

“Really?”

“Hmn. Only if you pass the examination, then you will be promoted to Tianshi. We’ll go on a tour and I will not cause trouble in your plans.”

“You will go with me?”

“With you.”

Chen Yang chuckled and took a big sip of the clear soup. Then he buried his face in Du Shuo’s shoulder and rolled around. He laughed for a while. “July is getting closer and closer, and you are more and more busy. It’s not good to accompany me all the time.”

“Wherever you travel, I’ll apply for the management of the area. I can still be with you.”

“Brother Du, you’re the best.”

Du Shuo’s lips and eyes were full of smiles. His Yang Yang was really cute. Even though he was sulky for a long time, he was very happy once he said he would travel with him for real. He immediately wrote off all the bad things he did and he became the best person in his heart.

Kou Xuanling looked up at the two people at the window on the second floor and called Zhang Qiudao, “Is that Director Du and Chen Yang?”

Zhang Qiudao looked up for a second and exclaimed, “The relationship between Director Du and Director Chen is very good. They are like brothers.” With that, he stared at Kou Xuanling, “They are like brothers, right?”

For a moment, he was confused and did not understand why Zhang Qiudao emphasized on ‘brothers’. “I think it’s just okay. They are not as close as brothers, just a better than normal friendship,” he said.

After that, he found Zhang Qiudao looking at him with a strange face and even sighed. Kou Xuanling didn’t know that kind of look was called, ‘Look, here’s a cosmic, straight as steel man, come and see.’

“Let’s go up and say hello to them.”

“No.”

“Then I’ll go up myself.”

“Oh, do you want to see Director Du angry?”

In silence for a few seconds, Kou Xuanling retraced his steps and left with Zhang Qiudao. And he tried to explain to him on the way, “Director Du is my idol, I admire him very much. There is no one like him in the Tianshi community. It’s very mysterious to be a Shangqing Tianshi at such a young age. He is my idol and target, and I am in awe whenever I see him.”

“All right. I know you’re not scared.”

“It’s nice of you to understand.”

As he left the street, Zhang Qiudao glanced in the direction of Chen Yang and said in his heart, ‘This all I can help you here. Enjoy your little world.’

Zhang Qiudao felt that he had a deep sense of merit and fame.

Chen Yang and Du Shuo really stayed in the ancient town for three days, although they did not go out of the scope of the ancient town. One and a half days was spent in bed, eating the characteristic food that was not spicy.

In addition, their sex-life was fulfilling.

He Tianna and Gao Tianliang still stayed in the ancient town to shoot. Chen Yang left a box of talismans for them sent by Mao Xiaoli, and told them some matters to pay attention to. The two took their advice and sent them off at the airport. When they got on the plane, Zhang Qiudao and Chen Yang’s mobile phones respectively got the notification of money transfer. They looked at each other and laughed happily.

This time they generously bought first-class tickets and enjoyed first-class services with Kou Xuanling. As for Du Shuo, he was not taking the flight back with them.

Zhang Qiudao asked, “Not going back together?”

Chen Yang replied casually, “He is busy and often disappears.”

In the afternoon, they arrived in the imperial capital and returned to the Branch Office after parting with Kou Xuanling. As soon as Mao Xiaoli saw them, she rushed to Chen Yang with tears in her eyes, “Brother Chen, you are finally back?”

“What, what?” Chen Yang asked and looked at Ma Shanfeng, who was drinking tea and watching opera.

Ma Shanfeng sipped his tea and said with a smile, “Except for the written test, Xiaoli passed all the tests.”

“So soon?”

Mao Xiaoli nodded heavily and recalled the day before. She was in a trance and said, “It’s so sudden. I got caught off guard, I wasn’t ready for anything. If you give me another two days, I will be able to pass the Mengwei exams for sure. I have already recited most of the Sutra of Mengwei. I can recite it if you give me another two days.”

Ma Shanfeng dismantled her platform, “The day before the exam, she stayed up late to watch anime. I heard it was a new anime.”

Mao Xiaoli was angry, “That’s because the Taoist Association came so suddenly! They came early.”

“Oh, that’s because the Temple head Meng specially ordered to examine you first.” Zhang Qiudao accentuated, “He wanted to take special care of you.”

Mao Xiaoli said, “Master Meng did that for my father’s sake?” She shook her head in despair, “I’m not a person going through the backdoor. Can I protest?”

Chen Yang was shocked, and he asked, “But I asked you to review before I left? You also promised me, how did you fail just because they examined you in advance?”

Mao Xiaoli said, “It was too sudden?”

Chen Yang sighed, “So you can’t get promoted now?”

“No. The Taoist Association said it was the trial test. They will give me another chance. When brother Chen completes the examination except for the written examination, we will be able to take the written examination together.”

Chen Yang said, “Because of the recommendation and guarantee of temple heads Meng, Yi, and Su, I am able to take the written examination directly.” After that, he patted Mao Xiaoli on the shoulder, “Seems like, we can’t have the written test together.”

Mao Xiaoli opened her mouth wide and looked at Zhang Qiudao, who nodded, “Take care.”

Chen Yang also said, “If I succeed in the written test this time, let’s all go to Shen city for a tour. Temple head Su also said he would welcome us.” Before Mao Xiaoli jumped up, he said, “Xiaoli can’t go if she can’t pass the exam.”

Mao Xiaoli was suddenly depressed. The next second she was full of energy and high morale, “I’m going to review now. Brother Chen, leave a spot for me.” After that, she ran to study the Sutras.

When the three people were laughing, Ma Shanfeng waved his hand and said, “I won’t go. There can’t be no one in the Office.”

Chen Yang said, “I can apply for leave with the Main Office. We can maybe pick up a job in Shen city. Let’s go together.”

“I’m old. I’m too tired to run and walk. You go. I’d better stay in the office to grow flowers and raise the fish.”

Hearing this, they didn’t force the topic.

Ma Shanfeng went back to his office with a teacup in his hand. He stood at the window for a while and began to laugh. The Branch Office was also getting lively, which made him feel energetic as well.

Chen Yang’s learning ability and memory were very strong. It was not difficult to memorize the main points of the assessment that Du Shuo had highlighted and then understand the meaning of them. Therefore, he passed the written examination easily, and the result came down on the same day, indicating that he had been promoted to fourth grade Mengwei Tianshi.

However, it was necessary to report to the administration, record the listing in the files and issue documentation. The next step was the promotion ceremony. Although each sect’s promotion ceremonies were different, they weren’t too different. Generally speaking, it was divided into two groups: one was the Zhengyi faction, the other was the Quanzhen faction. For the Quanzhen faction, besides adhering to the sutras, they’d also have to adhere to commandments.

In the Zhengyi faction’s rules, a Tianshi was not a monk, so they could still get married and have children. On the other hand, Tianshis of the Quanzhen faction could not marry and have children, and could only eat vegetarian food. Therefore, in addition to the sutras, they also needed to accept the commandments laid down.

These promotion ceremonies were complicated and were quite troublesome. Besides, Chen Yang did not have affiliation to a Taoist temple faction, nor did he have a teacher technically. So the promotion ceremony was a problem. Fortunately, Meng Fu heard about this and volunteered to hold a promotion ceremony for Chen Yang.

Since he was the master of the Fire God temple, and the temple was in the imperial capital, generally speaking, it was relatively convenient, but promotion needed a specifically chosen date and time. On the other hand, Su Li, the Supervisor of the Ziyang Palace in Shen city, heard about this and said that if they came to visit Shen city, they could hold the ceremony for Chen Yang as well.

Chen Yang expressed his thanks and finally selected Meng Fu for his promotion ceremony. The time selected to be suitable for the ceremony was right after they came back from the tour, so they chose the Fire God temple.

Mao Xiaoli was stimulated by Chen Yang and wanted to travel too, so she spent the rest of the day reciting and understanding the Sutras. She was gifted, and in a few days she really understood all the classics. Chen Yang and others sometimes examined her on the spot, and she managed to give clear answers. So they assured her to take the written examination with confidence, and the results were naturally positive as well.

After coming back, Chen Yang specially made a table of dishes to celebrate, and Ma Shanfeng also generously took out his precious wine to celebrate. Just as they were about to have dinner, Kou Xuanling knocked on their door, shamelessly stuck around for a meal, and then slept in the Branch Office for two days.

Hearing that they were going to travel, he shamelessly asked Chen Yang to count him in.

Chen Yang refused, “You are not a member of our Branch Office.”

“Who says I’m not?” Kou Xuanling took out a dispatch order with the official seal of the Main Office on it. He said happily, “I applied to be transferred to the Branch Office.”

Chen Yang was prepared, but he was also very glad. On the contrary, Mao Xiaoli could not believe this, “Our branch office is one that its mother abandoned and father ignored, someone is actually willing to be transferred here? Has our fortune really changed?”

Chen Yang covered his face. How could she expose their shortcomings so easily?

However, since Kou Xuanling had been transferred to the Branch Office, they naturally welcomed it. They had their first third grade, Wulei Tianshi in the Branch Office, which meant they wouldn’t be rejected easily when they took orders.

As the crowd welcomed him, he turned to Chen Yang and asked, “Are you cooking?”

Chen Yang was left almost speechless, “…I am.”

As a director, in order to retain capable subordinates, in order to make money to support his husband, who had no concept of money at all and spent a lot of money, he would cook.

After dinner, everyone gathered in the yard to enjoy the breeze. There were melons and fruits on the table, and they had a good chat. Except for Mao Xiaoli, who was watching her phone, they were noisy, everything else was very good.

“Ah!”

“What are you looking at?” Kou Xuanling asked her with a good temper.

“A live.” Mao Xiaoli answered without looking up.

“What’s the live about?”

“The Ye family estate No. 444 adventure live broadcast.”

All the people present looked at Mao Xiaoli. Mao Xiaoli’s mobile phone suddenly turned black. She was frustrated and cried, “Why is the screen black here? I wanted to see what’s in the house.”

Chen Yang asked, “Are you playing games? Horror games?”

“No,” Mao Xiaoli shook her head. “It’s a live feed of people going on an adventure. At the beginning, it was just a live broadcast of them going to the Ye family estate No. 444. At the critical moment, the screen suddenly turned black and there was a scream. After that, there was no more news of the one doing the broadcast. Some people reported it to the police, and said that it was haunted, and the rumors were boiling. It was said that the netizen who started the exploration went crazy and called out ‘ghost, there’s ghost’ all day long. 

“Later, many young people tried doing the same. It was strange that whenever they entered the stairway of Ye family estate No. 444, the screen would suddenly be black. Sometimes there’s sound, sometimes there’s not. Although all the people who went there later were found to be okay, the weird and terrifying rumors of Ye family estate No. 444 still spread out, and many people went to do live exploration. It’s quite popular.”

“Ye family estate no. 444? Where is it?”

“Shen City.” Mao Xiaoli said, “Brother Chen, let’s go and have a look too.”

“Do not disrespect ghosts and gods.”

“Brother Chen, I think the things at the Ye family estate No. 444 are just some little ghosts that frighten people, no one has died so far, so it’s okay. Besides, we’re Tianshis. If we go there, we can exorcize the ghosts along the way.”

Chen Yang replied, “If you want to go, then go yourself.”

“No problem. As long as brother Chen doesn’t object to me going.”

Chen Yang shook his head with a smile on his face.

“By the way, brother Chen, will your husband go on the trip with you?”

“He’s waiting for me in Shen City.”

“Wow, great!” Mao Xiaoli said with a smile, “it’s so great to have so many people traveling together.”

The little girl was lively and active, and liked lively places. So Chen Yang really looked forward to this tour.

 

 

 

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