Chapter 623: Nine Stars in a Row

"Mr. Chen..." Mr. Mao still wanted to say something.

Chen Jiajun waved his hand: "Say no more, you cannot learn my skills! However, there are still quite a few people with methods in this world; as long as you are willing to spend money, you might just run into one or two! Enough said, farewell!"

After finishing, Chen Jiajun ignored the two of them and went straight back to the nearby village to find an inn to stay in.

Dealing with a fierce ghost of Chu Renmei's caliber had truly exhausted Chen Jiajun.

In the Hong Kong of another timeline, Lu Yongyu's office.

Lao E followed instructions and placed the information from the Information Organization on Lu Yongyu's desk.

After reading through these materials, Lu Yongyu's expression was quite unsightly.

After all, Chen Jiajun had only been missing for such a short time, yet the Lu family members were already restless; this was simply not taking Lu Yongyu, the official successor, seriously.

Lu Yongyu suppressed her anger and asked: "When will A Jun return?"

Lao E shook his head and said: "The boss is currently... currently tied up with other matters and cannot return for the time being! He instructed me to tell you to try your best to stall the Lu family brothers."

Because of her relationship with Lu Yongyu, Lu Hantao had long since stopped managing affairs.

He was now just waiting for Lu Yongyu and Chen Jiajun to have two more children, and then have one of the children take the surname Lu.

Therefore, Lu Hantao gave his full support to Lu Yongyu inheriting the Lu family.

However, the others did not think so.

Lu Family Village was a very feudal village that preserved clan-based thinking.

In their perception, women were not qualified to inherit the family business, and did not even have the qualifications to enter the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors.

This kind of thinking had long been deeply rooted and could not be changed in a short amount of time.

But as it happened, the Lu family produced an anomaly: Lu Yongyu.

Not only did she have a great head for business, but she also latched onto a golden thigh, Chen Jiajun.

That was why she was able to take over most of the Lu family's businesses.

It was precisely because of this Big Boss, Chen Jiajun, that the people of the Lu family dared not act rashly.

Because the consequences of acting rashly had already been seen by the Lu family members, just like Lu Jinqiang and the others who were directly driven out of the Lu family's core.

But now, rumors had spread everywhere outside.

Lu Yongyu's golden thigh had gone missing! The terrifying wealth accumulated over many years by the Lu Guo Group and the Sihai Group was enough to make these people restless.

Especially Lu Yongfu and his brothers, who had long been impatient.

"Qiangge, let's do it!" Lu Yongfu said to Lu Jinqiang: "This was originally our Lu family's property!"

Lu Yongquan also chimed in: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; the Lu family's affairs shouldn't be manipulated by an outsider!"

Lu Jianbo also followed up: "That's right! Qiangge, this Lu Guo Group originally had a share for us!"

Lu Jinqiang smoked his cigarette, his face showing neither joy nor sorrow as he said: "You... who instigated you?"

Hearing Lu Jinqiang's words, everyone's expressions changed instantly.

Lu Yongfu waved his hand irritably and said: "Don't worry about so much, just give me a word on whether you're in or not!"

Lu Jinqiang said indifferently: "In? With what are you going to be in! Do you really think that just because Chen Jiajun is missing, you people can jump onto the stage?"

Lu Jinqiang was different from his brothers; he held a construction materials company in his hands, had contracted the Lu Guo Group's construction material business over these years, and had even expanded his business into the interior of the Huazi Group.

Even setting aside his identity as a member of the Lu family, he was doing quite well in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

Especially after joining the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, he realized how profound Chen Jiajun's influence was.

It was simply not something a group of clowns could shake.

What's more, Chen Jiajun was only missing; no one had said he was dead.

What if Chen Jiajun came back? Regarding the events of that year, it was Lu Hantao, as the father-in-law, who personally pleaded for mercy, which was why the few of them escaped a disaster.

Otherwise, they would have been dumped into the sea by Chen Jiajun that very day. Now they want to do it again? Lu Yongfu snorted coldly and said: "Qiangge, since that's the case, we won't say anything more. But we've been brothers; I hope you won't stand in our way!"

After finishing, the three brothers turned and left Lu Jinqiang's house directly.

After they left, Lu Jinqiang picked up the phone and dialed a number: "A Yuan, are you free? Come over and chat for a bit?"

On the other side, after Chen Jiajun left Huangshan Village, he quickly arrived at Hong Kong Island, then transferred to a vehicle and headed straight for Kwun Tong.

According to the location provided by Lin Fengqiao, his junior fellow apprentice was at a housing estate here in Kwun Tong.

In this timeline, it should still be the eighties.

The Kwan Tong District hadn't been developed much, let alone the even more remote Tseung Kwan O area.

After Chen Jiajun arrived at the housing estate mentioned by Lin Fengqiao, he was truly taken aback.

Because this place seemed as if it had been abandoned; the road surfaces were covered in moss and weeds.

Stepping into the main entrance, Chen Jiajun saw a towering building.

The origin of buildings like housing estates could be traced back to the fire at the Shek Kip Mei Resettlement Area.

At that time, because the disaster victims had nowhere to live, the Hong Kong government built these types of houses.

However, it didn't have much to do with disaster victims afterward; land in Hong Kong was worth its weight in gold, and large amounts of land were developed.

Those farmers whose land had been requisitioned moved into these housing estates.

It was just that the Kwan Tong District was truly remote, and there were very few people who could come to live in the housing estate.

Building such a large housing estate was now equivalent to it being abandoned.

Chen Jiajun walked to the entrance and saw an old man sleeping inside the security booth.

Chen Jiajun knocked on the window of the security booth, startling the old man awake.

"Young man, what are you doing here?" The old man looked very surprised to see an outsider coming: "Looking for someone?"

Chen Jiajun nodded and said: "Uncle, I'm here to look for Uncle You, Chen You."

"Ah You!" The old man suddenly revealed a smile: "He is sleeping inside the food stall in the back! Shall I take you to find him?"

"Would that be a bother?" Chen Jiajun said with some embarrassment.

The old man before him seemed a bit too enthusiastic.

The old man waved his hand and said: "No bother, no bother, not many people come here anyway!"

As he spoke, he very enthusiastically led Chen Jiajun into the main gate of the housing estate.

The first floor of the housing estate still had some shops, besides a grocery store, a food stall, and a Chinese medicine clinic.

As for clothing stores and the like, they had all closed down, and the entire housing estate presented an extremely desolate atmosphere.

Soon, the old man brought Chen Jiajun to the food stall.

It was not mealtime, and the food stall was not open.

The old man knocked on the door hard a few times, and finally got a response: "Ah You, Ah You! Someone is looking for you!"

"What the hell! Who is looking for me!" At this moment, a man wearing a bathrobe and bleary-eyed pushed the door open and walked out, saying with an impatient face: "The food stall isn't open! Come back after mealtime!"

The old man smiled and pointed at Chen Jiajun beside him, saying: "It's this young man looking for you!"

"Who are you?" Chen You rubbed his eyes before he could see Chen Jiajun clearly, but since he did not recognize Chen Jiajun, he asked directly.

Chen Jiajun smiled slightly and said: "Jiu Shu sent me here!"

"Jiu Shu?" Chen You's expression changed instantly: "Where is he?"

"He returned to his hometown!" Chen Jiajun said with a smile: "I came from his place first."

Chen You pondered for a moment, then cleared a path and said: "You come in first! Yan Shu, sorry to trouble you!"

Yan Shu nodded and turned to leave.

Chen Jiajun walked into the shop and discovered that there was grease and smoke everywhere, and even the tables were covered in a thick layer.

A recliner was placed in the middle of the shop; clearly, Chen You had just been sleeping there.

After entering, Chen You brought a bottle of beer for Chen Jiajun and said: "You have a trace of Evil Qi on you. Did you run into something dirty earlier?"

"I passed through Huangshan Village and got entangled by something dirty! But fortunately, I sealed it back up." Chen Jiajun said with a smile: "Of course, not using the methods of your Mysterious Gate, but just by making something that can soothe the Evil Qi."

Chen You nodded: "No wonder. I could tell at a glance that you haven't entered the path; it would be impossible for you to deal with a fierce ghost of that level. Tell me, why did my senior brother send you to find me?" Chen Jiajun sighed and said: "You should be able to tell that I am not from this world, right?"

"Hmm?" Chen You was stunned for a moment, then began to pinch his fingers to calculate for a while facing Chen Jiajun, and then said with a surprised face: "This is truly rare. It's my first time seeing someone like you."

"Your senior brother said the same thing!" Chen Jiajun spread his hands helplessly and said: "I met an old woman earlier; she told me to find your senior brother, and then your senior brother told me to find you. I've already circled Hong Kong once."

Chen You said somewhat strangely: "Your problem... my senior brother should be able to solve it, right? Why come find me?"

Chen Jiajun could only say: "Your senior brother is plagued by serious illness and is already at the end of his rope. It took a great deal of effort just to deal with a fierce ghost created by dark arts on the island. He has no ability to help me now!"

"What?" Chen You stood up immediately, then sat back down with a gray, defeated expression and sighed: "True, for people like us, not many have a good ending."

Chen Jiajun asked tentatively: "Can you help me?"

"I can. I need your birth date and time, and the time of the era you are from!" Chen You nodded and said to Chen Jiajun.

Hearing Chen You's affirmative answer, Chen Jiajun breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, there was someone who could give a definitive answer.

And so, he readily reported his birth date and time and the time he was from.

After listening, Chen You took out a thick book and began to flip through it.

Soon, he looked at Chen Jiajun with a strange expression and said: "In other words, at this current time, you should only be in your teens?"

"Hmm... that's one way to put it." Chen Jiajun nodded.

Chen You slammed the book shut and said with a speechless expression: "Now we have a problem!"

Chen Jiajun immediately frowned and said: "What kind of problem?"

"First, tell me about how you came to our world." Chen You was silent for a moment before saying to Chen Jiajun.

Chen Jiajun did not dare to delay and could only recount how he was sent to the Walled City and everything he had experienced along the way.

At the end, Chen Jiajun added: "Your senior brother seems to know that old woman in the Walled City. Do you know her?"

Chen You shook his head and said: "I don't know her, but your situation... is very troublesome! Let me cast a hexagram for you first."

As he spoke, Chen You took out a compass and began to chant incantations.

A moment later, Chen You gave a bitter smile and said: "Now we have a big problem. You will have to wait more than ten years before you can go back!"

"More than ten years?" Chen Jiajun immediately bristled: "Isn't that nonsense?"

Chen You said somewhat helplessly: "I must wait until the Nine Stars Alignment before I have a way to send you back!"

Chen Jiajun was immediately at a loss: "Is there no other way?"

Chen You said with some hesitation: "It's not that there isn't, it's just... the price is very high!"

"How high?" Chen Jiajun said, frowning.

"It's hard to say right now. You have to give me some time to study it." Chen You said with a scalp-tingling feeling: "I have truly never seen a situation like yours!"

"Fine, I'll stay here for now!" Chen Jiajun nodded and said: "I should be able to rent a room here, right?"

Chen You suddenly revealed a strange expression and said: "You want to stay here?"

"Is there a problem?" Chen Jiajun was stunned at first, then thought of something, and said with an ugly expression: "It can't be, right?"

Chen You smiled and said: "What's there to be surprised about? This place has problems to begin with, otherwise why would I be guarding it?"

Chen Jiajun ignored Chen You and walked straight out of the shop.

Suddenly, the world before Chen Jiajun's eyes changed its appearance.

If the housing estate he saw just now was merely dilapidated.

Then now... it was a scene of decay.

The whole world was gray and hazy, and things like ash were constantly drifting in the sky.

The housing estate building was surrounded by a mass of black smoke, and bursts of wailing sounds came from within.

The walls of the building were covered in structures resembling flesh and blood, rhythmically pulsing as if they were still breathing.

The weeds and moss from before had completely transformed into winding, barbed things.

Chen You walked out from the food stall, looked at Chen Jiajun with curiosity, and said, "This Spirit Eye of yours is quite interesting; it doesn't seem to be a power that belongs to you!"

Chen Jiajun retorted irritably, "Your senior brother already said I'm completely clueless, so how else would I have survived until now if I didn't borrow someone else's power? But... why do you live in a place like this?"

Chen You smiled and said, "This place is a seal, and my duty is to guard the things inside so they don't run out and harm people."

"A seal?" Chen Jiajun looked at Chen You with a look of astonishment.

Chen You shook his head, seemingly unwilling to say more, and simply changed the subject: "It's not a big problem for you to live here, just don't go looking around everywhere with your Spirit Eye! The things inside are all suppressed by the seal; as long as you don't actively provoke them, they won't attack you! After all, your own affairs need some time to be resolved."

"How long will it take?" Chen Jiajun asked aloud.

Chen You shook his head and said, "Hard to say, maybe two or three days, maybe a week!"

"Fine, I'll wait for you!" Chen Jiajun nodded.

And so, Chen You took Chen Jiajun to find Yan Shu and rented a room next to Chen You's house.

"This room isn't bad!"

After Yan Shu opened the room, Chen Jiajun took a look and said.

Chen You sneered and said, "There naturally aren't any problems on the floor I live on, but as for the other floors, that's hard to say!"

"Screw you!" Chen Jiajun gave Chen You the middle finger, then headed toward the room.

But at this moment, Chen You stopped Chen Jiajun, took out three sticks of incense, and lit them: "Do you know what it means to greet the residents when entering a house? We're going to be neighbors, so show some manners."

Chen Jiajun followed suit, took the incense from Chen You's hand, and bowed toward the surroundings.

Chen You seemed to see something, then said to Chen Jiajun, "I say... why does a kid like you have such heavy baleful energy? What do you do in that other world? You aren't a triad boss or a hitman, are you?"

Chen Jiajun smiled and said, "You guess?"

"Tsk, you're not a simple kid!" Chen You nodded and said, "That saves some trouble; ordinary little things won't dare to come near you!"

Chen Jiajun asked curiously, "What exactly does this 'baleful energy' you speak of mean? It seems it can ward off evil?"

Chen You said indifferently, "Someone like you who licks blood off a blade makes even gods and ghosts fearful! If you were from my world, you wouldn't want to think about having a good reincarnation in your next life!"

"Let's not talk about this. If you need anything, just tell Yan Shu; he'll take you to buy it. You should settle in here for now!"

Chen Jiajun nodded and grinned toward the inside of the room.

A gust of cold wind blew past, and the entire room seemed to become much cleaner.

Chen You was speechless and turned to leave the place where Chen Jiajun was renting.

In another space-time, Hong Kong, New Territories Lu Mansion.

After Lu Yongyu learned of this matter, she immediately came to find her father, Lu Hantao.

Nowadays, Lu Hantao's hair was already gray, and he had to rely on a cane to move around.

However, his spirit was quite good; he should still be able to enjoy himself for a while longer.

Seeing his daughter arrive, Lu Hantao said with some surprise, "How do you have time to come over today?"

After a moment of silence, Lu Yongyu said to Lu Hantao, "Father, you've heard the rumors outside recently, haven't you?"

"They say that kid Chen Jiajun is going to collapse!" Lu Hantao nodded, then revealed a sneer: "That kid's energy is far beyond what they can see with their eyes. But where is Chen Jiajun right now? Why hasn't he shown his face yet? Could it be that he wants to..."

Lu Yongyu shook her head and said, "It's not that, Father. A Jun is indeed tied up by matters and might not be able to return to Hong Kong for a while! But in the days A Jun is not in Hong Kong, quite a few people have already begun to stir! For example, our own family..."

Hearing Lu Yongyu's words, a flash of sharp light emerged in Lu Hantao's cloudy old eyes: "Who is so tired of living?"

Lu Yongyu sighed and said, "What do you think?"

After hearing this, Lu Hantao shook his head and said, "These bastards, I might be able to save them once, but I can't necessarily save them a second time!"

Lu Hantao's expression was somewhat ugly, and he and his daughter looked at each other in silence.

This kind of situation right now was the hardest to handle.

But on second thought, it was better for them to handle it than for Chen Jiajun to handle it upon his return. No matter the result, given Lu Yongyu's relationship, Chen Jiajun would have to swallow his pride and accept it.

But if this matter wasn't finished by the time he returned, then... people would definitely die! (End of chapter)