Chapter 153

"Hey hey hey! Here it comes!"

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In front of the four-faced Buddha statue in the center of the town, a young man wearing a dark blue plaid suit held the camera, his demeanor calm and his speech fluent, without any stuttering.

Compared to the amateur Jiang Han who streamed irregularly, the young lady Xia Chong who had nothing to do and came to find fun and excitement, and Xiao Ke and Tang Xin who could make money by acting cute and flirting in front of the camera with innate advantages, 'Shenzhen's Number One Deep Affection', known as Brother Deep Affection, was a dedicated professional streamer.

He streamed steadily for 366 days a year, only asking for leave to rest on major festivals like Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's Eve, and didn't even pass Qingming and Ghost Festival. Even the exercise he insisted on was done to maintain health and avoid asking for sick leave.

Commenting on current events, following hot spots, doing hardcore stunts, taking advertisements, and even directly promoting goods... As long as the money is in place, he can do anything, and everything is just so-so.

In fact, Brother Deep Affection, who is in the upper-middle reaches of the industry, didn't need to work so hard at all. His income could even be called financial freedom for a bachelor, but unfortunately, the guy with old people above and children below is not a bachelor.

A father in the hospital, a child in school, a pregnant wife, and a mother who buys health supplements wildly.

... And then he has to add a broken him who doesn't even dare to get sick.

Brother Deep Affection took a deep breath, with a sunny and cheerful professional smile on his face: "Okay, let's look up. See it? See it? That's right, we have now arrived at the center of this uninhabited town, the first unfinished project recorded in Qinzhou, the six-legged eight-armed four-faced Buddha. It is right behind me."

Turning the camera, a bright moon swept across the screen and finally settled on a broad Buddha face with a square forehead. This was one of the faces of the four-faced Buddha, facing west.

The Buddha face was gentle, covered in dust, and years of wind and rain made the Buddha statue's facial features gradually blur. One couldn't see the expression clearly, only a deep crack extended from the corner of his left eye to the ear root, like a cluster of crazy-growing vines attached to it.

"Although I knew it was huge before, it's really... really huge after getting close and looking at it."

Brother Deep Affection walked close to the bottom of the Buddha statue. Not to mention the four-faced Buddha itself, even the lotus pedestal under the Buddha statue's butt was taller than his own height. Looking up, he could only see the pitch-black chin of the four-faced Buddha—it was just after nightfall, the moon was hanging high in the east, and the west side of the Buddha statue was the backlight side, pitch black.

"Amitabha, I'm just making a living, please don't blame me, Buddha."

Brother Deep Affection bowed to the Buddha statue, and then turned on the high-intensity flashlight, splashing bright light onto the four-faced Buddha statue, which was five or six stories high, so that the viewers in the livestream room could see it clearly.

The four-faced Buddha sitting in the center of Zanjü Town had an image very different from the Buddha in film and television dramas. It was neither bare-chested and bare-bellied like Maitreya with a big belly, nor was it as square and upright as Shakyamuni, but closer to the Arhats or Vajras in general impressions—tall, fierce, and burly.

However, such a fierce body type sat quietly on the lotus pedestal in a calm posture that could be called 'peaceful', six legs crossed, eight arms retracted, four Buddha faces all lowered their eyes, as if they were sleeping.

Brother Deep Affection thought for a while and said: "Old viewers all know that I don't believe in Buddha. But in the month when my wife was about to give birth to her first child, I specifically went to the famous temple 'Guichen Temple' in Qinzhou to burn incense and pray for blessings. There, I once saw a four-headed eight-armed guardian statue."

"Like this four-faced Buddha, it had four faces and eight arms."

"However, the appearance of that guardian god was completely different from this four-faced Buddha."

"The four faces of the guardian god were all fierce, and they had fangs, as if they wanted to eat people. The eight arms each held eight different magic tools: Vajra pestle, treasure sword... baring fangs and brandishing claws. It was far from as quiet and kind as the four-faced Buddha in front of me."

After Brother Deep Affection finished speaking, he glanced at the four-faced Buddha statue illuminated by the high-intensity flashlight again.

The Buddha statue's clothing was very gorgeous, carved with scales and feathers, inlaid with jade and gold. The craftsmen of Zanjü Town exhausted their exquisite skills on this huge stone, and all kinds of exquisite, cumbersome, and gorgeous techniques were piled up on it tirelessly, dressing the whole Buddha statue beautifully.

Clearly it was just stone, without being gilded, yet it gave people a feeling of 'magnificent' and 'majestic', like a palace.

"How should I describe this feeling? It's like a girl who has carefully put on makeup, wearing an expensive wedding dress, then putting on a delicate and beautiful fur coat, and then wrapping herself in an evening dress embellished with sequins, wrapping herself into a rice dumpling... All ten fingers are full of rings, and a pile of earrings weighing ten or twenty pounds pulls her earlobes very, very long, and the upper and lower lips are nailed with two rows of shiny lip studs..."

Brother Deep Affection muttered to himself:

"Very gorgeous, very shocking, but also very... eerie."

Gorgeous, gorgeous without limit.

Exquisite, exquisite without limit.

"Ah, sorry, a bit unseemly." Brother Deep Affection quickly recovered from the strange state of distraction just now, and showed a professional, hearty smile to the camera:

"The view here is not good. I'll go find if there's a building I can go up to, show you the full picture of the Buddha statue, and that north side without facial features."

As he spoke, Brother Deep Affection took the equipment and left the lotus pedestal at the foot of the four-faced Buddha, walked across a small bridge, and walked toward the direction of the houses—the four-faced Buddha was located in the center of a large dry pool. There were four bridges leading to the outside. Brother Deep Affection didn't know why the craftsmen of Zanjü Town built this pool, maybe it was for the convenience of handling engineering waste?

But now the pool had dried up, and below was a deep pit full of gravel. Falling down would probably be a death sentence, so he had to be careful crossing the bridge.

Walking down the small bridge, Brother Deep Affection circled the open space where the four-faced Buddha was located and found a well-preserved red-brick small building. The frame of this small building was poured with reinforced concrete, which was much stronger than the old houses with earth and wood structures in the town.

"I should be able to go up here."

Brother Deep Affection pushed open the rusty iron door and shone the high-intensity flashlight on the stairs inside the house. It was also poured with concrete, the signs of aging were not obvious, and it could be walked on.

Relieved, Brother Deep Affection slowly approached the brick building under the gaze of the four-faced Buddha behind him.

The inside of the building was dark and empty. Shining the flashlight over, he could see the wall directly. It was just an empty room. It seemed that the owner of the house also moved the furniture and things away when moving.

... However, the quartz clock on the wall wasn't taken down, it was still hanging there, and the hands had stopped long ago.

Brother Deep Affection shone the flashlight and walked into the door. The room was filled with a dry, sour moldy smell. To be cautious, he didn't hold the handrail, but walked up the stairs from the side close to the wall.

He was wearing leather shoes today, just matching this suit. The hard soles knocked on the stairs covered with ceramic tiles, making a crisp 'clatter clatter' sound.

First floor, second floor, Brother Deep Affection walked all the way up. It seemed that the livestream room was also affected by the quiet atmosphere in the room, and there were fewer bullet comments.

The night in the uninhabited town was very quiet, so quiet that one could only hear the sound of one's own breathing, pressed under the clattering footsteps, unable to breathe.

'Clatter—clatter—'

Suddenly, a crisp sound broke into his eardrums, echoing in the empty building. Brother Deep Affection's eyes widened instantly, his pupils constricted.

Is there someone upstairs?!

'Clatter—clatter—'

The sound got closer and louder. Now he could hear it very clearly: someone upstairs was coming down.

Brother Deep Affection subconsciously wanted to turn around and run away. In principle, he really didn't believe in any demons or ghosts, but at this time, principles weren't unchangeable.

Just as he took a step, suddenly a pink light flashed across the phone screen. Someone tipped him a 'Dream Amusement Park'.

This is the second most expensive gift on the livestreaming platform. The first used to be a rocket, but with the development of the livestreaming industry, more expensive gifts emerged. A 'Dream Amusement Park' is worth 1,314,521 yuan. The tipper's message was: 'Don't chicken out, go up and take a look!'

Brother Deep Affection hesitated.

Immediately after, the second 'Dream Amusement Park' appeared on the screen.

'Money is not a problem, understand?'

"... Boss is generous!"

Brother Deep Affection didn't even have time to see the boss's name, bit the bullet, and turned to walk upstairs.

'Clatter—clatter—clatter—'

The crisp footsteps got closer and closer. Looking at the small piece of light illuminated by the high-intensity flashlight in front of him, Brother Deep Affection felt his back go cold, and even the dry moldy smell permeating the dark building became more intense and pungent.

Is it an illusion?

Turning the corner of the stairs, the crisp footsteps stopped abruptly. The door at the top of the building was open, and the cold moonlight was cut into a square shape by the door frame, projecting a slender, beautiful shadow onto the stairs.

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Brother Deep Affection looked up and saw a pair of white silk stockings that were straining the flesh.

"Xiao Ke? Why are you here?" Brother Deep Affection's tense nerves relaxed instantly, a false alarm.

The person standing upstairs was a streamer who entered Zanjü Town to explore with him, screen name 'Xiao Ke Sleeping Not Enough'.

Xiao Ke didn't speak, smiled sweetly at Brother Deep Affection with her head lowered, and walked down the stairs with light steps, bringing a sweet, fragrant breeze.

"Where's your phone? Aren't you livestreaming?" Brother Deep Affection saw Xiao Ke, who was walking toward him, empty-handed, and couldn't help but feel a bit strange.

But Xiao Ke didn't have the slightest intention to answer his doubts. Her face, with exquisite makeup, still hung a sweet smile. She took two steps in three, and threw herself into Brother Deep Affection's arms like a returning swallow.

"Damn." Brother Deep Affection almost couldn't even hold the phone steady.

Xiao Ke's figure was slim, and she wasn't tall, but where there should be meat, it was very full. The soft touch rushed into his arms, like a plush doll filled with cotton, so soft that this married old man's scalp went numb.

"You, what are you doing!..."

Brother Deep Affection hurriedly used his hand to block the camera, in a mess.

He didn't dare to have any extra movements at all. One hand held the flashlight, one hand held the phone, and both hands were held high for fear of putting them in places they shouldn't be. This is the excellent risk-avoidance awareness of a mature man.

However, his tolerance was met with the other party's inching forward. The wet and slippery touch came from his chest. It was Xiao Ke kissing his collarbone, a small, soft tongue sliding up his neck, and her teeth gently biting his earlobe.

Brother Deep Affection felt numb all over, and could no longer care about all this. He dropped his hands that were held high and pushed her away fiercely.

"What are you going crazy for!" Brother Deep Affection roared.

He wasn't a virgin who would be blinded by a romantic encounter. He had a high vigilance against designs like a honey trap. The throwing of herself into his arms by a fellow streamer, as if she had lost her mind, didn't bring Brother Deep Affection excitement or excitement, but fear.

He was still livestreaming. If he hadn't blocked the camera just now, he didn't dare to imagine what would happen.

The eldest son was still in school, the father was still in the hospital, the wife was still pregnant with a second child, and the mortgage for the school district house hadn't been paid off yet... Any mistake in his work was a weight that this family couldn't bear.

But Xiao Ke didn't seem to care whether he could bear it or not.

Xiao Ke, who was pushed away, turned a deaf ear to Brother Deep Affection's roar. Her face still hung a sweet smile that seemed to melt even honey. She licked her wet lips with a shallow tongue, and two small hands reached out to the man in front of her again.

"Come on..." A soft voice came from her throat.

"Come on what! What the hell are you doing!" Brother Deep Affection was furious, not daring to let go of the hand covering the camera.

Looking at the woman walking closer and closer, he could already imagine what a mess the livestream room must be in right now.

Damn! Damn! Damn!

Brother Deep Affection took two steps back, his back against the wall. Xiao Ke, who didn't know what kind of madness she was having, followed like a snake, her soft body pressed tightly against his chest and abdomen, not caring about the intimate contact of sensitive parts at all.

"Come on..." The delicate voice drifted lightly in the stairwell, as if carrying some unspeakable magic, making people's bones soft and numb.

Brother Deep Affection, who was a male chauvinist, was very resistant to hitting women. He subconsciously wanted to run, but the girl's arms had already tightly wrapped around his waist.

Clearly, they were such slender and soft hands. To a healthy adult man, they were so weak that they could be broken with a pull, but at this moment, wrapped around Brother Deep Affection's waist, they were as hard as two twisted steel bars.

Hard, and cold.

... Cold.

The familiar wet and slippery touch slid from his chin to his mouth, Xiao Ke stood on tiptoe and kissed his lips. Instantly, Brother Deep Affection's brain went blank.

What shocked him so much wasn't how fragrant and colorful the wet kiss with Xiao Ke was, but her body temperature.

She had no body temperature.

The girl who threw herself into his arms had a soft and cold body, as if it were a piece of silicone refrigerated in a refrigerator, softly pressed against him, and the seductive voice drifted from a mouth without life: "Come on..."

Brother Deep Affection's whole body was stiff. He stiffly raised his head, and the moonlight without a trace of warmth spilled over his face.

Through the door at the end of the stairs, he saw a huge, dark face. The eyes were drooping, the corners of the mouth were relaxed, and a deep crack extended from the corner of his eye to the ear root.

The four-faced Buddha sat quietly in the center of the dry pool, watching a person frozen in the stairwell without saying a word.

(End of chapter)