Monster Escape Room Re-Employment Chapter 39
byA hundred ghosts never sleep (1)
The third figure slowly emerged, it was the skeleton-like old man – Luo Su’s grandfather.
He burst into tears and walked step by step towards the young man who was hugged by Jiang Lingyi.
“Su’er…my Su’er…” The old man stretched out his skinny hand and wanted to touch his grandson’s face, but he didn’t dare.
“Grandpa was wrong… Grandpa thought that he entrusted you to Master Lou Xian to find a strong support for you so that you could grow up safely… Grandpa never thought that what you wanted was never those…”
“Old guy, get out of here!” Luo Su’s face was twisted with resentment again.
“Grandpa doesn’t want you anymore, never!”
The old man ignored his harsh words and finally couldn’t bear it anymore. He rushed forward and hugged Luo Su and Jiang Lingyi together, crying loudly.
“Grandpa is afraid that he can’t protect you! He wants to find the best home for you! Grandpa is stupid… he forgot to ask you what you want…”
Perhaps what Luo Su longed for most was not to be protected by such a powerful evil spirit, but rather to sleep in the open with his grandfather and live a precarious life together.
Although he would never admit this, Jiang Lingyi, as a “same kind”, could understand his thoughts.
Because what he longed for most was not to grow up peacefully in the Jiang family’s magnificent mansion.
He never doubted that his mother loved him, but how much he hoped that she could choose the latter between death and children, even if a mistress with an illegitimate child would find it difficult to live decently in society.
——Isn’t the unbreakable love between family members enough to support us in overcoming hardships together?
——Don’t you have confidence in me and think that I don’t love you equally or even more than you?
——As long as I can be with you, I will be happy any day. Why don’t you understand?!
“What’s the use of talking about this now!”
Luo Su was still trying to be brave, but he stopped twisting, put down his arms and stopped resisting, letting the old man’s strong bones clamp him.
The misunderstandings, grievances, and regrets accumulated over countless years poured out with tears.
Jiang Lingyi silently let go of his hand, took a few steps back, and looked at the scene of the reunion of his grandparents and grandchildren, his eyes burning a little.
After a long time, the crying gradually stopped.
The old man wiped his tears, as if he had made some kind of determination: “Su’er, is it too late to compensate you now? … Grandpa can ask Mr. Lou Xian to completely turn you into a snake belly, and we will be reunited in his body, and grandpa will never leave you again—”
“It’s too late.” Luo Su gently pushed the old man away, and his face returned to calm.
“Why?”
“Don’t you understand yet? I would have been dead a long time ago.”
Jiang Lingyi and the old man were shocked at the same time.
Luo Su gave a sad smile: “Back then, when my betrayal of Lou Xian was revealed, Lei Yu and other forces surrounded and suppressed the Shura Snake Sect… How could I survive?”
“What is attached to Jiang Lingyi now is the spirit body formed by my strong obsession before my death, mixed with some of my remaining soul.”
“…Strictly speaking, I am not Luo Su at all, just a lingering soul.”
Therefore, he cannot be saved, cannot be forgiven, and can never even be reunited with his family somewhere.
Because the real him no longer exists in any corner of any world.
There was deathly silence in the wilderness.
Only the wind whimpered.
If he hadn’t met Lou Xian and so many other people, if it had been the day he left the Jiang family seven years ago.
Jiang Lingyi might be willing to stay here and accompany him through endless years until green buds can bloom in the wilderness.
However, he now has a place he has to go back to and a promise he must fulfill.
“Then I’ll stay here and not go anywhere.”
As if to replace Jiang Lingyi, the old man said firmly.
“You are really confused.” Luo Su said lightly, “You are just a projection from Lou Xian, and you cannot stay in my domain for a long time.”
The old man lowered his head.
“Let’s make a bet.” Jiang Lingyi suddenly said.
“There’s no point in you torturing me like this. We might as well make a final settlement each. If I lose, everything about me is at your disposal. But if I win -”
He spoke every word.
“You have to let go of all your obsessions, go where you should go, be reincarnated, and start over.”
Luo Su looked at him suspiciously, not knowing what he wanted to do.
Jiang Lingyi continued: “As a sign of sincerity in handing over the battle invitation, I will terminate the connection with the Yin-Yang Clutch Formation.”
Pang Mei told him before leaving that there was actually a way to untie the formation, but that way, once he was fatally injured, he would never be able to resurrect.
After a long while, he slowly said: “Okay, I promise you, it seems that both of us are going to fight to the death!”
“In seven days, I will use all my remaining power to come to Earth, so be prepared.”
His declaration of war was very brief, and he changed his previous sarcastic style. He turned his back, and the illusion began to waver.
Both Jiang Lingyi and the old man felt a force pulling them back, as if they were trying to pull them out of the world.
“Su’er——!”
The old man stretched out his arms as hard as he could towards Luo Su’s back, but he never looked back.
In contrast, Jiang Lingyi was very calm, and the results of this discussion were within his expectations.
It would be great to understand each other thoroughly before both parties fight to the death, so that there will be no unnecessary worries.
Shallow sympathy is a slight to their respective beliefs. Now, they only need to think about how to kill each other completely.
Jiang Lingyi woke up on the sofa in the living room, with Lou Xian’s concerned face above him.
Ah, it’s the long-lost knee pillow…
Jiang Lingyi immediately described to Lou Xian what happened in Luo Su’s mind. In fact, Lou Xian already knew about it through the old man.
“He really hopes you love him…”
Jiang Lingyi didn’t know why she had to explain to Lou Xian the thoughts of this “love rival”.
“But, I don’t understand.” Lou Xian lowered his eyes in pain, “…I still don’t understand.”
“…Then why are you crying?”
Lou Xian touched his face blankly, only to find that there were new transparent trickles on the tears that had dried up.
There is no doubt that these are tears shed for Luo Su.
He still couldn’t understand Luo Su’s feelings, but the feelings themselves had truly passed through the boundary between life and death and finally reached his heart.
“I don’t understand it, but it’s sad.”
Jiang Lingyi felt that the curse on his waist began to heat up again, guessing that Luo Su might be planning to fulfill the agreement and return him to reality. Lou Xian also noticed the change in the flow of magic power. He leaned over and kissed Jiang Lingyi’s forehead with great reluctance, and he returned the gentle touch on his cheek.
“It doesn’t matter, we will meet in real life soon.”
“I will never give up until I reach that happy future.”
“Yeah!” Lou Xian nodded heavily, staring at Jiang Lingyi’s gradually becoming transparent figure.
…
I can’t count how many times I woke up on this sofa.
Jiang Lingyi looked at her phone. It was now two forty-eight midnight.The bottle of sleeping pills and glasses were also placed neatly on the coffee table.
It seems like I have really returned to reality.He breathed a sigh of relief.
He took the elevator downstairs, scanned a shared bicycle on the roadside, and rode it safely to the mall that was unreachable in the fantasy world in just five minutes.
The store was brightly lit, and all the monsters and ghosts gathered together. Pang Mei had already explained to them the ins and outs of the matter.
Lou Xian was placed sleeping in the store manager’s office, looking like a sleeping beauty waiting to be awakened.So Jiang Lingyi held an all-hands meeting in the staff lounge.
Even the employee with a natural zombie face was there. He was told that all his colleagues had the same makeup before and after. He was just stunned for a few seconds, and then said: “Will this affect your teaming up with me to play ranked?”
“No, it doesn’t matter…”
“That’s good.” He said and fired again.
In a sense, he is even more receptive than Jiang Lingyi.
Jiang Lingyi stood on the stage, glanced at the employees one by one from left to right, and announced the start of the last staff meeting.
“Store manager! What do you mean the last time! Are you going to resign and leave us?”
Before Jiang Lingyi said a word, the Hidden Fox Fairy answered first and said with tears in his eyes.
Brother Bandage snorted: “Having no ambition means that he is nothing more than that.”
“I do have this idea…but it’s not what you think.”
He suddenly bowed deeply at ninety degrees, lowered his head, and apologized loudly.
“I am no longer qualified to be your store manager!”
“You raise your head first.” The Ripper quickly stepped forward, “What is going on?”
“Even in the illusion, my resurrection will consume a lot of energy, and resurrection is no better than daily survival. The loss must be very huge. This is obviously the precious energy that everyone has earned through hard work, but it has all been squandered and wasted by me…!”
“If you die from exhaustion of magic power because of me… I will never forgive myself in my entire life!”
“Huh, huh! Anyway, you just said that for Lord Lou Xian’s sake and because you were worried about being disliked by him.”
The vampire said earnestly: “Bandage, now is not the time for a tsundere character to appear.”
Jiang Ling understood it, tried to open his sincere eyes, and raised a gentle and bright smile.
“This has nothing to do with Lou Xian. You are also employees and friends that I want to cherish from the bottom of my heart.”
“You are also the only human being we want to cherish.”
Feitouman spoke, his head was well connected to his neck today.
“I think I still have a say after being almost smashed into a pulp…” He and his colleagues from Yuxing Women’s High School looked at each other, nodded, and spoke on their behalf.
“Perhaps Luo Su has also calculated this… while torturing you, it can also make us complain about your huge energy consumption, thus alienating each other.” Everyone nodded.
“In fact, some people did think so at first… It was Brother Bandage. He woke us up by scolding us, saying that the culprit was Luo Su, but you were innocently implicated by us, and we should apologize to you.”
Jiang Lingyi looked at Brother Bandage in surprise, but he just turned his head to one side without saying a word.
“Jiang Lingyi, I’m sorry.”
“Store manager, I’m sorry.”
“Mr. Jiang, I’m sorry.”
The demons all lowered their heads or leaned down, spreading out a plain on their backs. Jiang Lingyi was shocked by this scene and could not speak for a long time.
“…and, thank you.”
“Thank you for being our store manager.”
“Thank you for taking care of Mr. Lou Xian for us.”
“It’s so nice to meet you on Earth.”