Chapter Two: Formal work
Master Bai's handsome face suddenly appeared in front of me, showing a naughty smile. His dark red eyes suddenly closed, and he looked at me with white eyes without eyeballs.
I was startled and instinctively shrank back, but he grabbed me by the collar and pulled me very close to him.
He instantly recovered his red eyes and said with a smile: "I'll scare you occasionally so that you can adapt to the working environment! Haha!"
I rolled my eyes at him. These two seemed to be my direct bosses from now on and were not easy to get along with.
"Oh, I'm not a bad temper. Just read the instructions here. If you don't understand anything, please ask the curator. He is an old employee!" Mr. Bai glanced at the black cat.
Then, he bent over, backed away slowly, and disappeared into the darkness silently.
I smiled helplessly!
What kind of shitty luck is this? I just signed a permanent job at the crematorium in the morning, and this night I signed a temporary job in the underworld!
I am very interested in opening the black box that Mr. Bai left for me to check out my office supplies. Is this a gift package for newbies?
It’s just that I’ve been looking for a long time and I still can’t see where the button to open the box is?
Hey, this is still a high-end product!
The curator watched me gnashing my teeth for a long time, then slowly walked over on cat steps. He pressed his big and thick cat paws on the surface of the box, and the box glowed with a purple-red light.
It curled its lips and showed an evil smile: Xiaoya, haven't you seen it before?
I was irritated by the look in his eyes and gave him a roll of the eyes, "Humph, what are you pulling!"
I gently opened the box and saw a mobile phone, a pair of headphones, a gold hairpin, and a user manual neatly arranged inside.
I put on the earphones with great interest, and the wireless earphones suddenly flashed bright light into my ears!
Huh? That’s interesting...
Well, it’s hard to understand the words in the user manual, so just get started and fiddle with the phone first.
I picked up the phone and took a look. It looked really crude. It was big and heavy. It wasn't a phone at all. It was obviously a brick.
The curator saw the look of disgust on my face, so he couldn't wait to press the screen of the phone with his paw, and the phone immediately emitted a layer of purple light.
The screen lit up and displayed a few words, "Verifying identity, intercepting the local system!"
"This..." The underworld is so high-tech.
The curator glanced at the phone, meowed, and then a mechanical male voice immediately sounded in his ear: "Please enter your name and identity information!"
I followed the steps carefully and occasionally observed the curator's eyes.
I seemed to find that the person controlling the mobile phone was actually the curator. The sound that seemed to be coming from the mobile phone was actually him speaking!
"Hai Ling, female, eighteen years old, underworld temporary worker number 9124, registration successful!"
9124? What the hell? Just...a piece of earwax!?
The phone stupidly reported this series of programs, "9124 current mobile phone model Huawei Honor 10 detected..."
"Huh!?" I was stunned and looked for my cell phone, only to find that it was missing. As I was fumbling around, I saw that the brick-like cell phone from hell suddenly changed into the way I used the cell phone before.
Hey... interesting!
I felt like I had discovered a new world, so I immediately grabbed it and looked at it carefully. From the outside to the inside, it was exactly the same as my previous phone.
This...this interface is no different from an ordinary mobile phone.
Well, what the hell is it at the end? There is an app with an icon of a cute black cat. Click it!
As soon as the screen of the mobile phone went black, a new interface was entered, and a row of messy things immediately popped up on it, such as soul file entry.
I was doing random things, but the curator couldn't stand it any longer, so he meowed impatiently, and then a voice popped into his ear: "Please read the instructions first, you idiot!"
Well……
I flipped through it and found the thick "Instruction Manual of the Underworld Tool Kit", which was in Chinese and English...
I opened my mouth speechlessly and lay down on the sofa to slowly look at it.
After watching it for two or three hours, I basically understood the content and nature of my work.
In view of the convenience of my current job, my main job is just to lead the souls home and then enter their soul files into the underworld entry system.
This is the job of a system entry clerk. I’m really speechless!
According to the explanation in the manual, after death, a person will enter the bardo state, and at this time, the soul will follow the body to the final place of the body.
In ancient times, burials were carried out, so most souls would wander around the cemetery. Therefore, it was actually very simple for the underworld messengers to just go to the cemetery in the barren mountains and ridges to collect them.
Humanity has made progress now. There are more and more cremations.
In the past, it was necessary to wait seven days before being buried, but now it takes less than three days to be cremated, so the existence time of the bardo body has become shorter.
Because the bardo body will disappear because the human body does not have enough courage to support it after the body disappears. If the soul is not received into the spiritual world before then, the soul will not be able to enter reincarnation again.
This made the work of the Yin Envoys suddenly become urgent.
Moreover, after people die nowadays, the place where they are cremated is far from the place where they died, and some souls of the dead are even lost.
The body and soul were forced to separate, and before the Yin Angels had time to take back the spiritual world, the body was cremated and the soul died.
It also caused some souls to lose the opportunity to reincarnate.
However, before burial, the body of the deceased will exist for a long time. Some souls are unwilling to be reincarnated, so they can have enough courage to support them to form new spiritual power.
This is why there were more ghosts in the past, but now there don’t seem to be any.
The main reason is that the ghost is gone before it even has time to form!
this……
Suddenly another thought came to my mind: It’s strange that the population in the world is really increasing!
After all, there are fewer and fewer people left in the human world, so there is no chance.
Ah! It seems that my job is not too complicated. Let’s do it first!
I picked up the so-called soul collecting tool again, which was a golden hairpin.
A hairpin that looks ordinary on the outside, but has a hollow bell.
Judging from the craftsmanship, it should be filigree and gold. This should be pure gold. After all, the underworld is not short of such money!
When using it, just take it off your head and gently draw a triangle, which will open a space that ordinary people cannot see.
The soul will automatically be sucked away by the purple-red light emanating from the triangular space.
So the next day, I officially started work. I combed my hair in a high bun. Well, this is the dress code for female employees at the crematorium. My hair must be tightly attached to my head.
I gently inserted the gold hairpin on my head and took a look at my black professional clothes in front of the mirror.
Well, quite energetic!
When the old manager saw me appearing in his office, he happily welcomed me and went through the entry procedures.
There was a slight gap, and I noticed that he glanced at my golden hairpin from time to time, and then let out a sly smile:
"Your hairpin is very pretty!"
"Well, really!"
While I was filling out the new employee induction form, I saw a hint of awe in the eyes of the old manager!
Chapter completed!