The atmosphere in the bedroom immediately turned cold, a sense of murderous intent slowly filling the space.

Strike while the iron is hot!

Besides, the relationship between himself and the little loli had been one of mortal opposition from the very beginning, and the little loli herself was the cause of it all.

Annihilate her, squeeze out the last bit of value, Zhou Ze felt no psychological burden at all.

The little loli looked at Zhou Ze, and then slowly opened her mouth and said:

"Do you want to be a butou (constable)?"

A person on the verge of death will always subconsciously grasp at any straw they can to gain a glimmer of hope for survival; the little loli before him was no different.

She knew Zhou Ze wanted to kill her, and she also knew that Zhou Ze wanted to use her to obtain the last bit of benefit and value; she offered it up herself.

Moreover, her original pride and courage had long been completely crushed in that Ming Shop (afterlife shop) in Rong City, on that night. The physical injuries hadn't recovered, but neither had the mental trauma.

That night, she knelt in the corner, watching her colleagues who had come with her be annihilated one by one, like fireworks blooming. This scene almost subverted her original worldview.

Hearing the words "butou (constable)," Zhou Ze remained unmoved, simply sitting there quietly.

The implication was like saying to the little loli: please, begin your performance.

Anyway, listening wouldn't get him pregnant.

"Do you know the two basic conditions for becoming a butou (constable)?"

Zhou Ze still didn't answer, but he slightly raised his hand, placed it near his nose, and sniffed.

The little loli took a deep breath; she wished she could tear Zhou Ze into a million pieces right now, but what goes around comes around. She had returned seriously injured from Rong City, and it was already remarkable that she hadn't died. Now, she couldn't even deal with a corpse demon.

The principle was simple: one is the knife, the other is the fish.

"There are two conditions for becoming a butou (constable): one is reaching the standard in performance points, and the other is having three other ghost servants willing to become your subordinates, listen to your orders, and serve you as butou (constable)."

Zhou Ze still didn't speak.

"Serve you as butou (constable), actively offer their soul blood to merge into your identity plate, allowing you to control their life and death, making betrayal impossible.

Satisfying these two conditions allows you to advance to butou (constable), and then you can move forward to the position of xunjian (patrol inspector)."

"Serve as butou (constable)?" Zhou Ze smiled. "If it were that simple, wouldn't you ghost servants be fighting amongst yourselves?"

Just like the BGM slogan the little loli often recited, "The Yin Division is orderly, the Yellow Springs can be crossed," if ghost servants wanted to become butou (constables), they had to go through this kind of model, where randomly engaging in life-and-death struggles could force the other party to become their subordinate. Wouldn't the entire ghost servant circle become a chaotic free-for-all of nurturing poison?

However, in Zhou Ze's view, the ghost servants' circle was actually quite peaceful, otherwise the little loli wouldn't have been able to summon so many ghost servants to go to Rong City that time.

"First, there is only a difference in identity between butou (constables) and ghost servants, not in strength. Only when you reach xunjian (patrol inspector) can you possess the Yin Division's conferral certificate, and only then can you truly possess a status beyond ghost servants and butou (constables).

Second, as long as the butou (constable) they serve is promoted to xunjian (patrol inspector), the previous contract will automatically disappear, and they can regain their freedom.

Third, you are currently coercing me. Although you are also a ghost servant, your act of coercing a colleague will inevitably have fallen into the eyes of the Yin Division. Killing another ghost servant who has problems is equivalent to solving a problem for the Yin Division, so nothing will happen.

But if you kill me, it will definitely be recorded by the Yin Division, and you may not feel anything now, but in the future, when you are promoted again, you will inevitably encounter trouble. Even, if you continue to be unrestrained, the Yin Division will issue a wanted order for you, just like that person in Rong City last time.

Therefore, the relationship of service between ghost servants does involve coercion, and it does involve the exchange of benefits, but there is rarely any life-and-death killing to force it, because doing so is not worth it.

Wanting to be a butou (constable) is to be qualified to become a xunjian (patrol inspector), to obtain an official position free from being a yamen runner, and to have one's own spirit tablet in the Yin Division, even if it is the lowest-level spirit tablet. Therefore, not many madmen are willing to use simple and crude methods to coerce other ghost servants just to become a butou (constable)."

Zhou Ze stretched out his little finger, picked at his ear, and said, "So, if I kill you, I'll have trouble in the future?"

"Definitely."

"That is to say, even if I become a butou (constable), it will be difficult for me to become the so-called xunjian (patrol inspector) because of today's events?"

"Indeed."

"Then why don't I just kill you?"

"You can use your performance, use your actions, to erase the negative impact of your coercion of me today. It's not completely impossible to go further. I can… help you.

Because if you don't get promoted in a day, I must be under your command in a day, my life and death in your hands."

Zhou Ze slowly stood up, pulled open the curtains, opened the French window, walked to the balcony, and said:

"The first time I came here, when I walked out the door, you were standing here watching me, right?"

The little loli didn't know what Zhou Ze meant.

Zhou Ze's fingertips tapped lightly on the railing; he was hesitating, and he was also thinking.

In fact, Zhou Ze was a very conflicted person. He was a nobody, and he never denied that he was a nobody, in his previous life and in this life.

The contradiction of a nobody lies in the fact that he yearns for freedom on the one hand, and desires to realize his ambitions on the other hand, wanting to stand and admire the scenery on the one hand, and wanting to kneel and beg for progress on the other hand.

If he were a hero, he would not hesitate to accept the little loli's suggestion, regardless of whether you wanted to kill me before, I only want the benefits in front of me, I only want to pursue the progress in front of me.

If he were a libertarian, like that person in Rong City, he wouldn't care, he would only care about his own freedom, even if he was banned, he would disdain it, either you kill me, or I kill you.

And Zhou Ze happened to be in between.

"How about this, let's flip a coin?"

Zhou Ze thought of a way, and took out a one-yuan coin from his pocket.

"Heads, I'll kill you; tails, I'll take you."

The little loli's eyes widened; she thought Zhou Ze was joking, deliberately humiliating her, actually entrusting her life to something like flipping a coin!

Are you fucking retarded!

The little loli roared angrily in her heart!

Her ten jade-like fingers tightly grasped the bed sheets; she hated being injured so much, otherwise she would definitely pull out the soul of the person in front of her and burn it with hellfire a hundred times!

"Flipped!"

Zhou Ze tossed the coin out,

The coin kept spinning in the air,

The little loli's eyes stared fixedly at the coin, until the coin fell.

Zhou Ze bent down, looking at the coin at his feet.

It was the "tails" side.

The little loli breathed a sigh of relief. Although the process was very nonsensical, in the end, she could survive. Even if she was controlled by others, at least she could live.

Moreover, the little loli had seen Zhou Ze's ghost plate, and she clearly knew which shadow stood behind that ghost plate. Even if that shadow had dissipated for who knows how many years, that Mount Tai had once been a behemoth suppressing hell!

She was willing to take a gamble; the future wasn't completely dark. Because Zhou Ze didn't seem like a person without luck; he was originally her scheduled performance and substitute, but after she returned from Rong City, she found that everything had changed. He had identity, and he controlled the situation.

Even the appearance of the corpse demon today became an opportunity for him to force her to show herself, making it impossible for her to hide any longer.

Zhou Ze picked up the coin, clicked his tongue, as if he was a little dissatisfied:

"How about, we flip it again?"

The little loli's eyes immediately turned red, and her tongue stretched out, surrounding her. She was going crazy; she was ready to fight!

"Don't get excited, don't get excited,

Don't get excited, I won't flip it, I won't flip it."

Zhou Ze walked up to the little loli, tilted his head slightly, and took out his certificate book.

The little loli retracted her tongue, and then patted her forehead with one hand. Immediately afterwards, a black bead of light floated out from there and merged into Zhou Ze's certificate book.

Zhou Ze licked his lips. In the dark, he seemed to have another line in his heart, and this line was related to the little loli's life and death.

Life and death that could be severed by his one thought.

The little loli got off the bed and slowly knelt down to Zhou Ze, it was a one-knee kneel, with one hand resting on her knee, raising her head, performing the salute of a subordinate to a superior.

"Lin Ke, greets Butou (constable)!"

Lin Ke should be the ghost servant's name, and the name of the little loli's body seemed to be Wang Rui.

At this time, the little loli, filled with anger and unwillingness, knelt down, her body trembling slightly, but she could only accept her fate!

Zhou Ze looked at the little loli below him,

Slowly raising his head,

The arrogant and cold little loli who was once so high and mighty in front of him was now subdued at his feet.

This kind of reversal of ice and fire,

Was indeed very pleasing.

At this moment, the old daoist walked up the stairs; Wang Ke was awake, and he came to inform the boss.

He just went upstairs and gently pushed open the bedroom door,

And then his eyes immediately widened!

He saw the little loli kneeling in front of Zhou Ze,