Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 362 The Chickens That Sold Out, and the People Returning to Their Dorms

"Old Chu, the message has already been sent out by the technical department."

In the deputy director's office, Fan Yaohui spoke to Chu Xiu.

Chu Xiu frowned and remained silent for a long time before finally saying, "Tell me, is doing this really a good idea?"

Fan Yaohui shook his head.

“I know what you’re thinking. You have this idea, I have it, and the director certainly does too. But whether or not to make the talisman public, and what the consequences will be, nobody knows.”

"The director simply chose the best solution so far."

"The Great Xia Dynasty is in turmoil. The Divine Envoy Organization has created the Yin-Yang Rift. We just managed to control the influence of the Divine Envoy within a certain range, and now the Ghost Slave Organization has made its move. Now, the Bureau of Investigation not only has to deal with the sudden surge of ghosts and spirits, but also has to take care of the unrest that has occurred among ordinary people. If we don't introduce external forces, we will be powerless!"

Fan Yaohui sighed and continued:

"Instead of letting these 'rats' like divine messengers and ghost servants run rampant in the Great Xia Dynasty, why can't the Underworld, an organization that has always maintained a friendly stance, try letting go?"

"The situation is already so bad, how much worse can it get?"

Chu Xiu remained silent as he listened to Fan Yaohui's words.

He understands the reasoning, it's just a subconscious worry.

After all, once the method for making the talisman is made public, if the underworld really has some kind of conspiracy, the Bureau of Investigation will have a hard time controlling it.

However, as Fan Yaohui said, we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Even if the underworld has some kind of conspiracy in the future, at least for now the underworld is still on the side of Great Xia.

If the underworld can truly resolve the issues of divine messengers and ghost servants, then even if the underworld descends into chaos, the Great Xia will only need to focus its efforts on dealing with the underworld.

Perhaps this would be better.

"By the way, do you know why the director only revealed the method for making Candle Night Stone Town this time?"

Chu Xiu suddenly asked.

"Of course I know."

Fan Yaohui smiled.

"Because, among all the town-suppressing objects we know, the only one has no taboos and does not require ordinary people to operate it."

"Putting aside the hidden threats of the underworld, I'm now starting to look forward to what it would be like if every household in the Great Xia had a Candle Night Stone Town."

Chu Xiu nodded.

He acknowledged the effectiveness and convenience of the talisman.

Within the Bureau of Investigation, the only equipment that can achieve a similar effect, is usable by ordinary people, and can deal with ghosts is the Warm Sun series.

However, the production of the Warm Sun series equipment is limited, and the Bureau of Investigation cannot and should not use all its resources to arm ordinary people.

If this were to happen, Da Xia would remain in a state of passive defense.

This is not right!
Great Xia cannot simply defend without attacking!
Time flies by.

Two days after the public announcement of Zhuyeshi Town, some changes began to occur within the Great Xia Dynasty.

Although it wasn't as dramatic as the Bureau of Investigation had imagined, things were indeed changing. At least the impact of the Ghost Slave Organization's previous actions had been somewhat mitigated by the appearance of the talisman.

……

Mubei University, Mubei City, student dormitory.

"Ah Long, let's go buy some chicken!"

He Guolong, who was carefully fixing his hair in front of the mirror, didn't turn around when he heard this.

Buy chicken?

These guys in the dorm are really obsessed. These past two days they've been either looking for a stone carving factory to make some kind of chicken sculpture, or discussing where to buy a chicken.

They actually believe all that stuff being said outside!
"I'm not going, I have an appointment later."

"Huh? What kind of date? With whom?"

The word "dating" is definitely a key word in the boys' dormitory. Even though the others are in a hurry to do their own things, they still can't help but gather around.

"Li Wei".

"Li Wei?"

The roommates exchanged glances.

"Ah Long, doesn't Li Wei have a boyfriend? Are the three of you... going together?"

He Guolong's lips twitched.

What the hell? Being a simp isn't enough, they also have to wear a hat?
"No, Li Wei has something to do at home and needs to take the high-speed train back. It's an evening train, and she's afraid to go alone, so she asked me to go with her."

"Huh? Is she crazy? Why take the high-speed train at night? Couldn't she have taken another one?"

Upon hearing this, the roommates' expressions all changed drastically.

Everyone knows what's been happening in Daxia lately. Let alone a girl, even these grown men wouldn't go out partying at night anymore.

I heard that the revenue of internet cafes, KTVs, and billiard halls near the school has been cut in half, while small hotels are still booming.

"It's not possible to change it. The only high-speed train back to her home is at 7 PM. Besides, the high-speed trains haven't stopped running, so what are you all worrying about?"

He Guolong sprayed some hairspray on his styled hair and was satisfied.

Turning to the group, he said, "I won't say anything if you want to set up that Stone Town thing. At most, it'll just be a waste of money. But please don't let those rumors on the internet interfere with your real business."

He Guolong's Educational Philosophy.

Two days ago, when the mayor held a press conference, he was still shocked, but afterwards, some people spread rumors that it was fake news created by someone using AI technology.

He initially treated the whole thing as a joke, but then news of something else from Candlestone Town came out that same day.

The two pieces of news, one after the other, left people scratching their heads.

If you say the press conference was fake, then the paranormal events the other party mentioned must also be fake, right?
If it's fake, then why are they promoting things like the Candle Night Stone Town for warding off evil spirits?

But if you say the press conference was real, why deny it? And why has he never seen a ghost?
The mix of true and false news made He Guolong stop believing the rumors circulating outside. He simply assumed that the management of Daxia was acting crazy and that someone was pandering to the higher-ups.

He remembered that the person who took office in Daxia two years ago was rumored to be fond of folk customs.

Shaking his head, He Guolong ignored his roommates and walked outside with his things.

I have a date with my beloved, how can I be late?
You need to give at least half a day's notice to be considered sincere!
Watching He Guolong leave, the three roommates looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Never mind, let's go buy chickens first. I heard there's a huge chicken farm outside the city, and the farm covers two hills."

"Let's go, let's go! We've been running around all day, and in the city, there aren't even any live roosters left, not even hens!"

"By the way, was the chicken carving finished this afternoon?"

"Yeah, we'll pick it up when we get back, and then we can make it when we get back to the dorm. We're probably the fastest-moving ones in school, right?"

"Probably, I'll invite my female classmates to the dorm to see the chickens, hehe."

……

He Guolong waited from lunchtime until 5:30 pm before Li Wei finally arrived.

Seeing Li Wei pulling her suitcase alone, He Guolong walked over with a smile and took her luggage.

"Let's go."

"Thank you, He Guolong."

"Don't mention it, it's nothing serious."

He Guolong waved his hand magnanimously, then took out his phone and called a private car.

After getting on the bus, He Guolong started chatting with Li Wei.

Li Wei was in a hurry to go back because her grandparents had passed away and she needed to attend their funeral.

The topic was somewhat heavy, and He Guolong didn't know how to continue the conversation.

"Hmm... The old man passed away peacefully at a ripe old age, it's a happy death, a happy death..."

After He Guolong finished speaking, he suddenly felt that Li Wei's gaze towards him was strange.

He immediately recalled the conversation he had just had.

She was referring to her grandparents.

Two elderly people passed away together... Could it have been an accident?

"It was an accident. My parents said that something happened in the village and my grandparents were affected."

"Um...please accept my condolences."

He Guolong said somewhat awkwardly.

After a moment of awkward silence, He Guolong, eager to break the ice, immediately started talking about what his three roommates had done.

"...Xiao Yufei and his friends are really funny; they believe everything."

He Guolong had just finished speaking, and Li Wei hadn't even opened her mouth yet, when the middle-aged driver in front spoke up.

"Young man, there are some things you should believe in."

He Guolong frowned, ignored him, and continued to say to Li Wei, "What talk about warding off evil spirits and ghosts? If there really were ghosts, how come I've never seen one in my twenty-odd years of life?" "Young man, just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Let me tell you, there's someone in our driver group who's been haunted by something evil!"

He Guolong initially didn't want to pay attention, but seeing Li Wei move a little closer to him, he was overjoyed and immediately asked, "What kind of dirty thing have you seen?"

After he finished speaking, he moved to the middle of the back seat, looking as if he were peeking over to listen to the driver in the front.

"I didn't see him, but his death was very strange."

"At the time, he said in the group that he had taken on a big fare along the way."

"You don't know, for people in our line of work, if we can get a fare on our way back, it's definitely something to be happy about. Like this fare I got, it was on my way."

"I wouldn't have picked him up if it weren't on my way. It's so late."

The driver went off-topic for a while before getting back to the point.

"Back then, we were all envious in the group chat, but after that day, we never saw him speak in the group chat again."

"It wasn't until three days later, when the police found some people the driver knew and told them what had happened, that we learned from them that the guy had died that very night!"

Do you know how you died?

He Guolong's heart raced as he looked at Li Wei, who was sitting next to him on the arm.

"How did you die?"

"He was going 120 km/h at a 90-degree turn! He crashed straight through the guardrail, went up the slope, and flew off."

"It's said that when his car landed, it was flipped over, and he was completely crushed!"

He Guolong sensed that Li Wei had distanced herself from him, and felt somewhat disappointed.

He glanced at the driver's dashboard and immediately retorted, "Isn't this just a normal car accident? Didn't you also drive an ambulance? This is a very normal thing."

"Heh, a car accident?"

Have you ever seen a car accident where someone didn't brake when making a 90-degree turn?

He Guolong retorted: "Aren't there many cases of brake failure these days?"

"Fine, I won't argue with you about this. Didn't he just pick up a fare that was going in the same direction? But when they checked the car, they found only his body inside!"

He Guolong curled his lip: "Can't it be that the guest gets off the bus early? If I don't like the conversation with you, I'll get off the bus early too."

"Hehe, you're quite stubborn, young man," the driver laughed. "But what you said makes sense. However, there's something you don't know: ride-hailing cars now have interior cameras installed, and the recordings during the ride are uploaded to the ride-hailing platform."

"The police checked the dashcam footage, and guess what?"

"how?"

He Guolong smiled as he looked at Li Wei, who had come closer to him again.

"The footage shows the driver chatting with the empty passenger in the front seat, and his expression didn't change at all until a second before he crashed into the guardrail. It seemed he hadn't even seen the curve ahead!"

"How do you explain this?"

He Guolong smiled.

"After saying all this, did you actually see it with your own eyes?"

The driver gave an awkward smile.

That's what everyone in the group says.

"Alright, driver, just drive carefully."

He Guolong shook his head. "You've never seen it with your own eyes, what are you talking about?"

He turned his head, about to comfort Li Wei, when he caught a glimpse of a road sign flashing past the car window out of the corner of his eye.

That appears to be a sign for a bend in the road.

Corner?

Suddenly, He Guolong noticed the growing fear on Li Wei's face.

Then, he heard a deafening roar.

Immediately afterwards, he and Li Wei rushed forward together!

Li Wei was pulled by the seatbelt and slammed against the back of the front seat, her neck twisting.

He Guolong, who hadn't fastened his seatbelt in order to get closer to Li Wei, was thrown out from the middle of the back seat, crashing through the windshield and slamming headfirst into the two-meter-thick pier of the overpass in front of the car.

puff!

Cars passing by stopped one by one on the side of the road.

Some people took out their phones to call the police, some took out their phones to record videos, and some were preparing to rescue the person, but after only one glance, they walked to the side and vomited.

The scene outside the car was horrific.

The situation inside the car was terrible too!
……

into the night.

Xiao Yufei and his two companions hurriedly returned to their dormitory.

They were supposed to get back before nightfall, but there were too many unexpected events today.

First, when I went to buy a rooster, I encountered too many people.

The mountain outside Mubei City used to be full of chickens, but when they went there today, it was full of people!
They're all people catching chickens!
Because there were too many people wanting to buy chickens, the chicken farm owner didn't have enough chickens in the coop, and those people couldn't wait, so he had to let them catch their own.

Xiao Yufei and his two companions naturally joined the chicken-catching frenzy.

There were probably too many people catching chickens ahead, and all the easy ones were taken.

The free-range chickens that remained on the mountain were all very agile.

Finally, by using chicken-catching tools that others had run out of, they managed to catch four chickens before it got dark.

After paying, the three of them, along with the four chickens, headed to the small workshop where chicken carvings were made.

I thought that since few people knew about this small workshop, there wouldn't be any problems.

When they arrived, they were told that the finished chicken carving had already been sold.

This infuriated them!
Later, Xiao Yufei figured something out and doubled the price, which barely got the owner to give them "someone else's chicken carving".

Back and forth, the four chickens and one chicken sculpture cost the three of them 1,500 Xia coins.

Even if it's split equally among everyone, it would still be 500 yuan, which is not a small amount for a college student.

Fortunately, everything has been collected.

Having witnessed the fervent enthusiasm for Candlestone Town from the outside world, the three decided to remain secretive until the project was completed.

They packed the four chickens and a chicken eagle into three backpacks and brought them into their dormitory.

After locking the dormitory door, the three of them rubbed their hands together excitedly.

"Shall we...begin?"

After Xiao Yufei finished speaking, he looked at the four chickens and suddenly froze.

"Who will do it?"

"Uh, you can let me handle a cooked chicken, but not a live one."

One of my roommates stayed far away.

Xiao Yufei turned to look at the other one.

"I faint at the sight of blood."

Xiao Yufei rolled his eyes.

What the hell is this about being afraid of blood? This guy didn't say he was afraid of blood when he went to donate blood at the blood donation van just to get some milk!

Xiao Yufei gritted his teeth and said, "Fine, if you won't do it, I will! Remember, I have the right of first refusal to buy this thing later. When I want to take it, don't give me any more excuses!"

"Alright, let's get started!"

"Do it, do it!"

The two of them didn't care at all, staring at Xiao Yufei and telling him to make a move.

Xiao Yufei picked up a small knife and slowly reached out to the chicken whose beak and body were bound.

click!
The dormitory door was opened.

The three were startled.

Turning their heads, they saw who it was and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Close the door quickly!"

Xiao Yufei only continued his actions after seeing that He Guolong had closed the dormitory door.

……

PS: There is one more chapter, to be published later.

(End of this chapter)