The Tomb

Grave keeper?

Lu Yibai was a bit confused.

He had joined the Night Watchmen organization some time ago and had a certain understanding of its scope of business.

Wherever there were incidents related to "demons, devils, ghosts, or oddities," the Night Watchmen were sure to be present.

You might think there are no Night Watchmen around you, but that's a big mistake. They hide in every corner of the city, the lonely sentinels of the night.

Now, the country is strongly promoting public cemeteries, and public cemeteries, being places where dead people are concentrated, actually have a heavy concentration of ghostly and yin energy.

To be honest, things like demons and monsters were manageable; low-level ones couldn't even handle a handgun. But ghosts were different.

Killing ghosts with high-tech?

While fierce ghosts and vengeful ghosts didn't appear frequently in cemeteries, the heavy yin and ghostly energy made it easy for things like Ghost煞 to emerge.

These things generally had no consciousness, falling into the category of low-level ghosts, but they instinctively absorbed nearby yin and ghostly energy.

The yin and ghostly energy in cemeteries mostly came from corpses or ashes. One couldn't possibly say that people, after death, were still disturbed by malevolent spirits, could they?

Thus, public cemeteries became training grounds arranged by the Night Watchmen organization for newcomers.

Of course, some special large tombs were handled by powerful Night Watchmen.

According to Ji Dekeng, these trial grounds were highly sought after. It wasn't Lu Yibai's turn originally, but he used his connections to push Lu Yibai to the front of the line.

Lu Yibai: "..."

It felt like the practice workbook was sold out, and then the homeroom teacher told you, "Don't worry, I have a way."

You really care about me so much, it's so touching.

"Pack your things, you can leave now," Ji Dekeng said.

Lu Yibai's mouth twitched. So urgent?

Normally, the grave keeper trial period was a seven-day cycle, not very long, but he still needed to bring some daily necessities.

Ye Yiyi, being a diligent little maid, volunteered to help Boss Lu pack his luggage.

With a large backpack on his back, Lu Yibai went down to the first floor of the bar and picked up the Lion Umbrella.

With the Lion Umbrella, which had very strong Yang energy, in hand, he probably wouldn't be in any danger. He could just treat it as a chance to broaden his horizons.

Standing under the old locust tree at the entrance of the bar, Lu Yibai quietly waited for a taxi.

As usual, whenever he stood by the old locust tree, Boss Lu always felt an unusual sense of peace within.

Lin Xiaoqi and Ye Yiyi leaned against the window on the second floor, watching Boss Lu's figure.

The late autumn night breeze blew, rustling the leaves of the old locust tree, causing many leaves to fall.

At the very top of the old locust tree, a leaf fell with the wind, drifting particularly slowly, like a butterfly spiraling and dancing in the breeze.

Its color was a shade darker than the other fallen leaves, but it was hard to tell unless you looked closely.

This leaf drifted and drifted, then with a "swoosh," it quickly burrowed into Lu Yibai's pocket.

This scene was all seen by Lin Xiaoqi.

She looked at the old locust tree, which was much taller than the second floor of the bar, and said, "You seem to like Boss a lot?"

Ye Yiyi, hearing this, mistakenly thought Lin Xiaoqi was talking about her and blushed, saying, "Sister Xiaoqi, don't talk nonsense. Although Boss is very handsome, has a great body, and is rich, and he's very dedicated to us, but, but I'm a demon... Sob sob sob! Oh, you're so annoying, sob sob sob!"

The dramatic Ye Yiyi was adding more to her act.

In the night wind, the branches and leaves of the old locust tree swayed, as if shaking their heads, and it was unclear whether it was nodding or shaking its head.

Lu Yibai took a taxi to Wucheng's largest public cemetery complex.

As soon as the taxi driver dropped him off, he quickly left.

Coming to a cemetery in the middle of the night, he didn't know what this young man was up to.

An old man was already waiting for him at the cemetery entrance. The old man looked at him a few times, didn't say anything, and simply opened the cemetery gate.

Then, he walked back to his guardhouse on his own.

Wucheng News had reported that the old man was mute.

This cemetery, the old man had guarded for over thirty years.

Thirty years, for many people, was a significant portion of their lives.

He protected the peace of the deceased after their passing.

Lu Yibai sensed it slightly. The old man was a normal human, but who could say he wasn't a Night Watchman of this city?

It was the middle of the night, and the cemetery was silent. Even the sound of his footsteps crunching on the fallen leaves on the ground was clearly audible.

"The yin and ghostly energy are indeed very heavy," Lu Yibai thought to himself.

He couldn't sense these mysterious things before, but since he had opened the door to a new world, the entire world seemed to have turned upside down.

He planned to wander around aimlessly first, to get familiar with the terrain.

Coming to the cemetery to get familiar with the terrain, one could see that Boss Lu's nerves were really thick.

Things like Ghost Fiends were formed randomly; heaven knew when or from where they might appear.

The tomb-guarding period was only a week. Some newcomer Night Watchmen might encounter several Ghost Fiends every day, while some Night Watchmen might not encounter any at all, ending up just enjoying the cold wind in the cemetery for seven days.

He didn't know if this was good luck or bad luck.

After wandering around aimlessly for a bit, Lu Yibai confidently headed towards a certain area of the cemetery.

He wasn't very familiar with the cemetery as a whole, but he was very familiar with one specific spot.

"Dad, I've come to see you," Lu Yibai said quietly as he squatted before the tombstone.

The tombstone was engraved with the name of Lu Yibai's father, Lu Shan.

Some time had passed since his father's death.

He squatted beside the tombstone, rambling about his experiences during this period, starting from when he coincidentally met Ji Dekeng and then walked into the Answer Bar.

He had no one to confide in about these experiences. Because Night Watchmen had to maintain an air of mystery to ordinary people, he could only talk to his deceased father.

"Dad, I have a bar now too. Although it's not exactly what we planned before, I'm really a bar owner now..."

Lu Yibai talked for a very, very long time. Unfortunately, he would never get a response.

This inevitably reminded Lu Yibai of a passage.

He watched the nurse carry me out of the delivery room; I was crying then, and he was smiling.

I watched him get into the coffin; I was crying then, and he no longer paid attention to me.

He remembered when his father first passed away, Lu Yibai had reread all their past chat logs.

When he was studying at university in another city, the most frequent message his father sent him was, "Is your living expenses enough?"

His father wouldn't say things like "It's cold, wear more clothes." He would only say, "The weather forecast for your area today shows the temperature isn't high, it's a bit cold."

A man who was both father and mother, he must have had a very hard time.

This damn, unpredictable world...

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