The receptionist didn't look as pretty as she did seven days ago.
There were dark circles under her eyes. Despite applying thick foundation and trying her best to put on some blush to look more energetic, she couldn't hide the exhaustion on her face.
"Ah?"
The receptionist was in a daze. When she first saw Xiaotuanzi, she immediately caught sight of this cute figure.
Her overflowing maternal love was about to gush out.
But this time, Xiaotuanzi had already walked up to her, and she didn't even notice.
"Miss, do you need any help?"
Xiaotuanzi was very patient and said it again slowly.
"Miss?"
The receptionist finally came to her senses. Seeing the cute little one in front of her, she stared blankly and then spoke.
Then, as if she had thought of something, regardless of the fact that she was at work and her own image, tears welled up in her eyes and streamed down. She tightly grabbed Xiaotuanzi's hand, as if grasping at a straw.
The receptionist was extremely excited. Even though Niannian felt the pain from being grabbed, she didn't say anything. Instead, she clumsily raised her hand and patted the receptionist's head, consoling her, "It's okay. I can solve it."
The receptionist was almost devoid of vitality.
People have three fires on their bodies.
One on each shoulder and one on the top of the head.
The stronger the fires burn, the stronger the yang energy, and the more energetic the person is.
The weaker the fires burn, the weaker the yang energy, and the more dazed and weak the person becomes.
If all three fires go out, the person will surely die.
At this moment, there was only one fire left on top of the receptionist's head.
No wonder she was listless.
"Can you tell me what happened?"
Xiaotuanzi's soft and waxy voice seemed to have some kind of magic power, which gradually calmed the receptionist's emotions.
Her cloudy eyes regained clarity for a moment. The receptionist trembled and recalled the terrifying experiences of the past few days. Her just - calmed mood became extremely terrified again.
"I..."
"It's okay. Take your time. We can go over there and sit down to talk."
Niannian pointed to the sofa not far away, which was specially prepared for guests who came to visit someone.
Normally, during working hours, as a company receptionist, she shouldn't leave her post.
But at this moment, the receptionist didn't care about anything. She picked up Xiaotuanzi and walked towards the sofa.
She gently placed Xiaotuanzi on the sofa and then plopped down herself. Her body still couldn't stop trembling.
"I've encountered some very strange things these days. There's always someone looking for me in my dreams. He said I've already promised him that I'll go with him and asked me to get ready."
"I'm very afraid of the dark, so I always sleep with the light on at night. It's the same these days. But every time I'm woken up by that dream, my room is completely dark. I don't know who turned off the light in my room."
"I was so scared that I didn't dare to sleep in the past two days. But at three o'clock in the morning, I couldn't resist the drowsiness and fell asleep. I dreamed of that person again yesterday. He said he would take me away tonight!"
"Then he tried to grab me. At that moment, I felt a heat in my chest. When I woke up, I found that the talisman you gave me, Miss, suddenly turned into ashes. I was going to find you through the boss today. I didn't expect it to be so coincidental that you came to the company today, Miss."
"Miss, do you have any way to save me? I have a premonition that if... if I have that dream again tonight, I'll surely die!"
The receptionist was in tears, out of fear of the unknown and the approaching death.
Xiaotuanzi nodded slowly and patted the receptionist's arm comfortingly.
Well, she originally wanted to pat her on the shoulder.
But unfortunately, her hands were too short and she couldn't reach.
"Don't worry, miss. With me here, you don't need to be afraid. I came to the company today specifically for you. Miss, did you pick up some money on the roadside before you started having these dreams?"
When Niannian first saw the receptionist, she had already calculated what had happened to her.
But she wasn't quite clear about the details.
"Yes! I picked up some money. When I went downstairs to take out the trash, I saw 100,000 yuan in the trash can! Is what's happening to me related to that money?"
The receptionist immediately remembered the night seven days ago.
It was hard not to be impressed by 100,000 yuan being thrown in the trash can.
"Yes, that's the money for buying life. Someone wants to buy a life. Since you took that money, you've implicitly reached a deal, so you've been haunted by that thing."
Niannian had calculated that there was a karmic relationship between the receptionist and the ghost that was haunting her.
But the receptionist didn't have any blood debts on her hands.
It couldn't be a relationship of murder and being murdered.
So there were only two possibilities. Either the ghost haunting her was related to her by blood.
Or the receptionist had unconsciously reached some kind of agreement with the ghost.
If it was the ghost of a relative, it was unlikely to have the idea of taking the receptionist away.
So it could only be an agreement.
The money for buying life.
This was the most common and the most insidious way for a ghost to reach an agreement with a living person.
"Ah?"
The receptionist was a bit confused. She couldn't quite understand and had never heard of such a saying.
"Have you spent that money?"
"No, no. Such a large amount of money, I didn't even dare to touch it. I thought it was something that someone had accidentally lost, so I took all the money to the police station."
The receptionist waved her hands quickly.
100,000 yuan in front of her was indeed enough to tempt people.
But in today's society with a sound social order, as long as a person wasn't extremely greedy, they probably wouldn't dare to spend such a large amount of money.
She wasn't that greedy and was afraid that the owner of the money would be anxious if they lost it, so she took it to the police station intact.
"That's good. As long as the money hasn't been touched, it's okay. I'll go to your place tonight to help you solve this problem. But before that, you need to get the money back."
Niannian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
If the receptionist had spent the money, even the gods would have a hard time saving her.
People have their laws, and ghosts have their order.
Although it's not very kind to use the money for buying life to harm a person's life without the living person's knowledge.
But it's really taking advantage of a loophole in the ghost's precepts and laws.
Even if it's found out by the underworld, the ghost will only be punished lightly.
After all, the dead are already dead, and the dead can't come back to life.
The life has already been taken, and it was because of an agreement with a ghost that the person was harmed. Even if it's reported to King Yama, both sides are at fault.
Who told you to be greedy?
If you had just returned the lost property, you wouldn't have been harmed.
"Really? What about the CEO..."
The receptionist suddenly realized that the straw she was grasping at was just a five - year - old little girl.
Ah, this...
Going to her place in the middle of the night to deal with a ghost.
The boss would surely kill her if he knew!