This Damned Thirst for Survival

Chapter 172 - The New Agency

The evil spirit raises an eyebrow in mild surprise and then reverses direction towards Jiang Luo.

The dark-haired youth lifted his eyes and calmly exhaled a puff of smoke into the evil spirit's face. The crimson lips were mesmerising in the smoke, like a rich, fragrant rose.

Chi You's cane rested at Jiang Luo's feet, the smell of nicotine intertwining between them. But in the midst of the strong smell of smoke, Chi You also smells something that belongs to Jiang Luo, and he says moodily, "Rarity, are you waiting for me?"

Jiang Luo said, "If you hadn't had problems with your eyes, then you wouldn't have asked that redundant question."

The villain's coat is unruffled and his shoes are immaculate, like an old gentleman from the Republic. But the gentleman's blood smells faintly, and Jiang Luo knows that it is Qi Yuan's blood.

His eyes are subtly surveying Chi You, from his bowler hat to his tie, from his tie to the brand new white gloves on his hands. His eyes are stealthy and revealing, like he's surveying some interesting toy.

Chi You's face didn't change as he rubbed his palm slowly over the head of his cane, "You waiting for me in person always makes me think you're a little unkind."

"I'm not being nice?" Jiang Luo was amused, "Mr. Chi, don't you even ask your own conscience when you say that."

He poked Chi You's chest with his cigarette in his hand, "Oh, sorry, I almost forgot you don't even have a heart, so how can you have a conscience?"

The finger that poked the evil spirit was light, but seemed to carry a searing heat that instantly made the atmosphere ambiguous.

A certain dry fire seems like the air that has not been moistened by rain for a long time, and a little fire and lightning can ignite everything in an instant.

The handsome, lordly-looking demon narrowed his eyes and lifted his hand to take hold of Jiang Luo's finger.

The white silk gloves are slightly cool, and the evil spirit gently taps Jiang Luo's fingers as if dancing down the back of his hand. Jiang Luo smiles and burns Chi You's hand with the butt of his cigarette.

But the evil spirit reacted quickly and took Jiang Luo's hand, inserting two long fingers through Jiang Luo's fingers and then slowly moving forward, approaching the thin cigarette held between Jiang Luo's index and middle fingers.

He looked like a highly cultured, serious and old-fashioned gentleman, his handsome brow furrowed, "It's a very bad act to burn your cigarette into other people's hands."

His mouth is unrelentingly stern, but the pure white glove of his hand, inserted between Jiang Luo's fingers, brings up a dense, deliberate tickle.

On the outside, Jiang Luo knows that every fluid gesture, every glance from the gentleman lord is a tease, a hint that he wants to sleep with him.

"You lack breeding," said the evil spirit, "but I can give you some instruction in the most basic of manners."

Jiang Luo is surprisingly excited too. His eyes twitched up and he leaned back against the wall. The dark-haired beauty looks as if she can do whatever she wants, but Chi You knows that this is just a man-eating flower temporarily cloaked in harmlessness, but in fact it is already coated in venom, and one more touch could kill him.

The pretty man-eating flower looked up at the evil spirit and said lazily, "Is Mr. Chi so idle, coming specifically to attend the trial to kill Qi Yuan and leaving it at that, and now wanting to spend time teaching me to increase my connotation for free - by the way, it's free, right?"

"For others there may be a charge, but for you it's free," the evil spirit finally chucked the cigarette from the human's fingers to his own instead, he let go of Jiang Luo's hand and brought half of the cigarette to his own mouth, "after all we are an extraordinary relationship. "

In the last sentence, the coda rises like a pervert, and the excitement Jiang Luo hides inside can be captured with his eyes closed.

The dark-haired youth instantly rolled his eyes.

"First of all," the villain took an enjoyable puff, smoke spilling from his mouth, making his perfect face even more attractive as a god, and he said condescendingly, "being a gentleman doesn't allow you to smoke in public, got it?"

Jiang Luo glanced at the cigarette in his mouth, meaning to say, "Now you know."

"Good boy."

The evil spirit nodded in satisfaction as he shook the ashes from his cigarette, then raised his cane and smacked Jiang Luo on the calf, "Secondly, on this occasion, your attitude needs to be straight and you need to stand up straight."

Jiang Luo stood up straight cooperatively, but his expression was scattered, "Mr. Chi, your free coaching is really uninteresting. More than that, I want to know why you came to the trial today dressed like this?"

He asked seriously, "Are you out of your mind?"

The evil spirit forgivingly ignored Jiang Luo's blatant choking and said slowly, "Why don't you take a guess?"

Jiang Luo immediately said, "What's the reward for a correct guess?"

The corners of the villain's pale lips lifted in pleasure as he pressed out the cigarette he had smoked to the end and threw it on the floor, "That'll probably be the next free teaching."

Jiang Luo, "I'm not interested anymore."

That said, he guessed with interest, "When I was in the Mirror World, I saw a picture of a man dressed exactly like you are now. That man was your grandfather, wasn't he, and he was related to Qi Yuan?"

The evil spirit's cane is inserted into the crevice of Jiang Luo's leg, "Stand with your legs together, leaving no space between them."

The cane went up the calf but was about to cross the knee when Jiang Luo's legs clamped down and he could not move it any further. Jiang Luo's long legs were together, leaving no gap, and he said, with a grin on his face, "Is that so?"

The evil spirit's smile hid and he drew his cane, "Yes."

He re-picked Jiang Luo's trouser leg from Jiang Luo's ankle and answered Jiang Luo's previous question, "Keep guessing down the line."

Jiang Luo remembered how Qi Ye had come to him all night in the rain, just to see Chi You. Qi Ye had been in a very bad state for the past two days, looking as if his whole perception had collapsed in a state of bewilderment and despair.

As his thoughts turn, he recalls Qi Yuan's painful gesture before he died.

Chi You definitely did something to Qi Yuan.

Instead of killing Chi Zhongye, he uses Qi Yuan's death to terrorise Chi Zhongye. The family cannot escape the fear that Chi You will come and kill them even if they live in prison, leaving them in constant fear until Chi You actually kills them.

It is the Qi family and the Chi family who survive to suffer mentally as opposed to Qi Yuan. It is here that the conflict lies.

The original owner was a little cannon fodder to be used, and after he killed Chi You, he would be tormented by Chi You to such an extent that there was not a single piece of flesh on his body, but why did Qi Yuan, one of the culprits, die so easily?

This is so strange.

Jiang Luo pondered carefully and suddenly looked down, "What are you doing?"

His trouser leg was picked up to his calf by the evil spirit with his cane, exposing the white skin of his ankle.

The evil spirit calmly withdrew his cane and scratched Jiang Luo's knees and thighs through his trousers, "So, what's your guess?"

Jiang Luo looked at him meaningfully, " Did Qi Yuan kill your grandfather?"

The evil spirit's hands moved invisibly, then naturally upwards to Jiang Luo's crotch, "Close."

Jiang Luo reached out and gripped the cane, saying categorically, "Yuan Tianzhu made of your soul can enhance other people's spiritual bodies, and your grandfather's soul also has this effect, right? He used your grandfather's soul to enhance his own spiritual body."

Chi You said, "Right answer."

"The most powerful aspect of the Chi family's puppet soul refining technique is actually soul refining," he said absentmindedly, "Only the Chi family knows how to draw out someone's spirit body and use the value of the soul to its fullest potential, and apparently Qi Yuan is my grandfather's spirit body's ' heir'."

He let out a low laugh, "Three generations of geniuses in the Qi family, that sounds enviable."

Jiang Luo remembered the humiliation he had suffered as a young boy and a sudden, inexplicable anger rose up. He tightened his grip on his cane and yanked it to his side. The evil spirit was brought forward, close to him.

Jiang Luo's breath rolled hot, each exhalation wrapping the evil spirit in it as if on purpose. His red lips opened and closed as he said with mockery, "Mr. Chi, you are pathetic. So you've come to court this time to reclaim your grandfather's spirit body?"

"And dressed as your grandfather, perhaps also called a tribute?"

"That's a good use of the word," Chi You fervently complimented, "worthy of a college education."

Jiang Luo sneers twice.

The evil spirit smothered a laugh as he stood in front of Jiang Luo in a disciplined manner, leaning close but not touching any of Jiang Luo's skin. He looked polite and civilised, gentle enough.

But this is only what it looks like, in reality, only Jiang Luo knows that the cane that Jiang Luo is holding is rubbing against his waist in an unfaithful way, even trying to be more subtly nasty.

Jiang Luo, looking at such a pretentious Chi You, is itching to break his surface hypocrisy.

He waved his cane to the side, calming the fire that had gone to no one in particular, " Chi You, I told you right, the next time we meet I will destroy the clothes that are temporarily in your possession."

Jiang Luo reached for Chi You's coat pocket, "Do you have it on you?"

There was a darkness in the evil spirit's eyes, "You can check and see."

Jiang Luo was nonchalant and quickly went through his coat pockets on both sides, "Not here."

He looked at Chi You for a moment and then pushed his hand under his coat and into the pocket of Chi You's suit trousers.

Chi You's thighs are firm and slender, the only downside being that they are a little cold. Jiang Luo felt like he was touching Chi You's leg as he ran his hands through a thin layer of fabric in both pockets. He ignored Chi You's increasingly hot eyes as he felt his way inside and out before pulling his hand out, "Not here either."

"Hardly ......" Jiang Luo made a point of looking in Chi You's breast pocket, "here?"

But when he went up to the mould, there was still nothing.

Chi You said, "Of course I have to collect such an important thing. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a pity if you destroyed it?"

Jiang Luo grunted and withdrew his hand from his chest.

Chi You was so aroused by him that he couldn't resist any longer and lowered his head to get closer to him. Jiang Luo stretched out his index finger against his chest and ducked his head, glancing at him with a smile out of the corner of his eye, "As a gentleman, how can you kiss someone in public?"

"What does that matter," the evil spirit laughed low, revealing its true nature, "they can't see me anyway."

Jiang Luo turned his face sideways again to avoid it, "But I don't want to make out with you."

At that moment, someone at the end of the corridor shouted, " Jiang Luo, let's go! Officer Lin is looking for you!"

It's Lu Youyi and the others.

The smile on Jiang Luo's lips froze. He instantly remembered what Lu Youyi had said about "kissing lips" and what Ye Xun had said about "flirting". If they saw him and Chi You like this now, wouldn't it be too late for him to jump into the river?

Jiang Luo was ruthlessly trying to end the game, trying to push Chi You away but fearing that his actions might reveal something when he remembered that the others could not see Chi You.

Looking at him, the evil spirit looked thoughtful, "It looks like you've already made up another 'script' with your own friends."

He rubbed his fingers over Jiang Luo's lips and said with interest, "What's the script this time?"

Jiang Luo spits out a word of warning from between his lips, "Don't move."

But no sooner had those two words been uttered than the evil spirit's movements increased. He nastily forced his way inside Jiang Luo's lips and held his other hand around Jiang Luo's waist, "Your friends are coming over."

Jiang Luo's teeth bite down, but only on the evil spirit's glove, and he glares at Chi You with a fiery glare. But as the shame of being unilaterally molested by the evil spirit was about to drive his friends' eyes red with shame, Jiang Luo was desperate to get his hands on him and have a good fight.

"Never move," said the evil spirit assiduously, "they cannot see me, but when you do, they will see that something is wrong."

"Idiot," Jiang Luo muttered, still clenching his teeth stubbornly on Chi You's glove, "I curse you for being impotent."

The next second, he gave an uncontrollable, muffled grunt.

" Jiang Luo?" His friends, who were already halfway down the road, thought he hadn't heard them and raised their voices, "We should go now."

Chi You withdrew his hand and placed it back on Jiang Luo's waist as he sighed, "This curse is so vicious. You've talked to me about cooperation before and even kissed me in my dream, but today you're cursing me so badly.

His voice got lower and lower, as if he was mumbling to himself. Finally, he pulls his hand back from Jiang Luo's mouth because Jiang Luo's bite is so tight that Chi You abandons the white glove. He gently kissed Jiang Luo's lips with the glove in his mouth, his eyes locked with Jiang Luo's, a mixture of madness, fascination and coldness hidden within, and he whispered, "But this is really what I like about you."

Jiang Luo's breath caught in his throat for a moment as the evil spirit's eyes enveloped him like an ocean. It made him feel breathless, as if he were sinking into the sea, into a mud puddle, even as a vague and excited drum beat.

His mind seemed to go blank for a moment, and then it seemed to fill with vanity and triumph, or a pleasure that he did not yet know what it was.

Isn't it right to like me?

Someone as good as me will be the one to control you later.

Jiang Luo is lost in thought when the evil spirit's kiss suddenly lands on Jiang Luo's neck. Jiang Luo's neck trembles and he is unexpectedly moved. The knot in his throat rolls and the evil spirit takes it again and licks it.

Jiang Luo's fingers grasped the evil spirit's arm, and the next instant it jerked its face up to look at him in astonishment, its colour so black that it dripped ink, and he disappeared in disbelief.

Jiang Luo saw him disappear before he gasped and spat out the glove in his hand, laughing, "You moved when I told you not to, and now you're rolling."

With the rest of the air, he wrote the word "fuck off" for Chi You.

Although this one word completely used up his newly recovered air, Jiang Luo felt good about it. He turned his head to look at his companions and walked over to them in a glowing manner, "Inspector Lin is looking for me? Good, let's go."

But his companions watched his face with odd eyes.

Jiang Luo didn't understand why, but Lu Youyi said bluntly, "Jiang Luo, why are you blushing?"

Jiang Luo's smile froze as he looked up at the glass window.

The glass window reflected his slightly flushed face.

This is not the most important.

To top it all off, there was a smile on his lips that hadn't yet been restrained, a spring in his brow and eyes, the look of someone he had just had a vigorous workout with.

Jiang Luo: "......"

*

Jiang Luo barely managed to get past his friends with a lie before leading them to Inspector Lin.

Officer Lin found an office and spoke to Jiang Luo about their plan.

The state is prepared to set up an institution to absorb talents from the occult world and specialise in handling occult events, so as to completely break the three-legged situation in the occult world and hold the occult world in its hands for full management.

This institution is not known to the general public and is mainly dominated by the talents of the metaphysical community. There will be special police and medical care as logistics to protect it. The rest of the details will be prepared by the state, and what is most lacking now is the talent ready to work with the state.

In the past, it was the state that collaborated with the twelve universities in a roundabout way, indirectly assigning student tasks, but now it was the state itself that absorbed the talents, which was in essence completely different. Of the eight, only Zhuo Zhongqiu was somewhat hesitant, while the rest of the talents who had not been absorbed by the six families at all showed a full tenth of interest in this cooperation.

Jiang Luo pondered for a moment, "What is this institution called?"

Officer Lam smiled awkwardly, "We follow your rules, the full name of this agency is the 'Bureau of Natural Science and Social Research and Protection', which we have taken to calling the 'Bureau of Scientific Research' these days. "

Jiang Luo: "...... Great name."

"You can also apply for a name change if you don't like it," Sergeant Lam enthused, "What do you think? Are you interested in working with us? As long as you join our 'Research Bureau', you will be the first batch of patriarchs, we fully respect your opinions and ideas, you enjoy the treatment of our national civil servants, and you can also have publicly funded group building, how good is that?"

Ge Zhu's eyes lit up and he poked Kuang Zheng, "I'm tempted."

Kuang Zheng read the contract and a wavering look appeared on his face as he whispered, "My parents grew up hoping I could become a teacher or a civil servant."

With the exception of Jiang Luo and Zhuo Zhongqiu, the others were already clearly motivated. However, they did not immediately agree, wanting to see what Jiang Luo and Zhuo Zhongqiu would decide.

Zhuo Zhongqiu is sad to see that she herself is young and wants to forge a new career on her own more than to inherit the Zhuo family. Not to mention the fact that building a whole new, from-scratch department with the state was too cool for Zhuo Zhongqiu to say no to at all!

She couldn't resist running to sit next to Jiang Luo, " Jiang Luo, you are a disciple of Tian Shifu, what do you think?"

Jiang Luo lowered his eyes, "I'm going to leave Tian Shifu."

At these words, everyone looked at him in shock. Zhuo Zhongqiu was also stunned for a few seconds and said, "Why?"

Because he and Feng Li, are not personalities that get along well.

Jiang Luo was fed up with Feng Li's controlling nature and from the first moment he met Feng Li, Jiang Luo disliked Feng Li. But Feng Li was good to him, and if it had gone on like this, Jiang Luo would have been willing to return Feng Li's investment in him by obeying his words as a disciple. But the way Feng Li looked at him on the mountain made Jiang Luo sick to his stomach and disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

If Feng Li no longer looks at him as a master, then Jiang Luo will no longer treat Feng Li as a disciple.

He had already decided to break his ties with Tian Shifu and the cooperation handed out by the State was the best next place for him to go.