After Leon said that his team was very interested in investing in dry cleaners, car washes, and small supermarkets, Robert naturally offered to help him select stores that met the requirements and handle a series of transfer procedures.

"Since you and Jimmy are old acquaintances, Robert, then I naturally feel at ease with you."

Leon took out the checkbook from his pocket, pressed the signed check for twenty-five thousand dollars on the table, handed it to Robert, smiled slightly in the latter's puzzled eyes, and said: "This money is not only an advance payment for employment, but also a fund for you to buy clothes and improve your appearance, after all, I don't want my personal financial advisor to even be able to afford a decent formal suit." ”

If it was put aside, this little money naturally could not be taken by Robert, but at this time he was full of wind and frost, and he was at a low point in his life, and at this time he was suddenly appreciated by the gold owner, and he didn't know what to say for a while, until Jimmy tugged at the placket of his shirt under the table, and suddenly came back to his senses, took the check gratefully, and nodded to Leon.

"If you will allow me, please forgive me for not accompanying me." Roberta opened his chair and stood up, smiled slightly in Li Ang's puzzled eyes, and said: "Mr. Li Ang, in the United States, high-end professions such as lawyers, doctors, and financial analysts have the same social status and salary as their required professional accomplishment and difficulty of employment.

If a salary of $5,000 will allow me to do my duty, and a salary of $10,000 will allow me to do my best, then a salary of $25,000 is enough for me to do everything my employer tells me to do well, even to the point of perfection.

If it goes well, I will be able to find a suitable seller tonight, and the store will be assigned to your name within a week. ”

Eating the king's fortune and being loyal to the king, this is the so-called code of conduct of the elite class in Europe and the United States.

Li Ang appreciated this kind of efficiency, so naturally he would not be annoyed by such a trivial matter as Robert leaving the dinner halfway, and gladly agreed.

He naturally wouldn't be afraid that Robert would run away with the money, first of all, $25,000 is still too little after all, and secondly, in an industry like a financial advisor, where the professional reputation is equivalent to a person's name, Robert still dares to do this kind of thing, that is, he really doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.

After the meal, Leon said goodbye to Jimmy, took a taxi back to the motel, and browsed the web on his personal computer.

In order to be able to draw aura from the ghosts and resentful spirits, he specially registered an account on an online forum open to the West Coast of the United States, which specializes in collecting strange urban tales and weird stories that seem to be true or not.

There are often some amateurs who claim to be "supernatural event agents" to detect some haunted houses on the spot, use all kinds of strange and incomprehensible instruments to do spirit visualization experiments, and post text, audio, and video to the forum.

In the eyes of a professional like Leon, forty-nine of the 100 posts were hallucinations believed to be true, moaning innocently, fifty were deliberately created false events, eye-catching farces, and only the remaining one could really be related to spirits.

For example, in this post, the landlord claims to have bought a medieval book on witchcraft written in German while visiting an antique store, which records the ability to communicate with his relatives after death through the ritual of the spirit.

"It's a poor man who is carried away by the grief and nostalgia of losing a loved one."

Li Ang commented indifferently, the so-called spirit originated in the ancient period when human beings were still drinking blood, and the sorcerer shaman with a psychic physique communicated with the natural spirit body with the assistance of rituals, and used the ability of the spirit body to obtain information such as where there was a water source and where there were beasts to hunt.

At that time, the people of the world were ignorant, and they all regarded those natural spirits as gods, and those who were able to perform the ritual of the spirits were regarded as believers in the gods, and had a very high status in the tribe.

The sun and the moon pass, the world changes, as human wisdom gradually opens, into the slave society, if the spirit ritual to attract the natural spirit body is simple and kind, then nature is beneficial to human beings, but if the spirit body is cruel and evil, then it is required to get the blood sacrifice of live animals and even human sacrifice in the ritual - the moment the creature dies, its soul will be devoured by the spirit to strengthen itself, and human beings, as the primate of all things, this strengthening effect is particularly good.

During the Yin Shang period, there were different living sacrifice methods such as felling, cutting, shining, stinging, fire, nailing, burning, scooping, figurining, Yi and so on, with more than three or five hundred people and as few as one or twenty people, which was extremely cruel and cruel.

Even in the Tang and Song dynasties, the primitive Bon religion was still spread in the Tubo region, and every sacrifice had to slaughter livestock, burn treasures, and even take young and beautiful maidens to sacrifice to the sky.

And even more famous in the world is the lost Mayan civilization, the bones of living people slaughtered for the gods accumulated over time, and even filled several bottomless caves and sinkholes, and the annihilation of its humanity and the vastness of the project made Leon marvel at it, which is probably only comparable to Auschwitz.

It can be seen from this that the Lingling ritual is unreliable, not to mention whether the medieval classics bought by the poster owner are reliable, even if the classics are genuine, but there are places in modern society where he can find so many sacrificial creatures.

This is the United States, the United States in the 21st century, not the thirties and forties of the last century (in 1932, the United States public health department used hundreds of African-American men in Alabama as experimental subjects in the name of treating syphilis, and deliberately did not treat it to observe the harm of syphilis to the human body, and in 1940, the United States government used Guatemalan detainees and mentally ill patients to carry out inhumane penicillin prevention of gonorrhea and syphilis experiments, which shows that the United States is worthy of being a ghost animal country and cares so much about venereal diseases..... ）

The mouse moved down, and the owner of the post actually went to the supernatural item store to buy a wooden Ouija board according to the annotations on the ancient German books.

Then he lit a candle in a secret place with a pentagram, slit the throat of a pure black-haired goat with a bronze dagger in the dark, smeared the blood on the Ouija board, and then stood in a circle around the Ouija board with a few of his friends, chanting bullshit and obscure German incantations.

Leon was even more speechless, the Ouija board was an invention made by furniture merchant Eriga Bond in the late nineteenth century, specializing in dealing with leftovers left over from the process of making furniture.

It is naturally impossible to attract a powerful spirit without human sacrifice, and this German spell is completely nonsense, Leon was not interested in watching this kind of self-entertaining false psychic ritual, and moved his mouse to the upper right corner of the web page.

"Huh?"

As he closed the page, Leon unconsciously swept his gaze over the corner of the post, where there was a blurry photograph of an abandoned factory, roughly inside an abandoned factory, with a night view of the city.

"Although the photo is blurred, as long as you use professional software, you can still scan a clearer image..."

He muttered to himself as he opened a clear version of the photograph to the factory's wide-open broken glass window to see the landmark lighthouse in the distance, located in the bay.

A beacon of Gotham.

"Now I'm a little interested."