18. Antique shop at dusk
Jingle bells...
After an unrealistic sound, the cloaked man revealed himself as he lifted the curtain on the door of the shop. He looked around at the remote antique shop. As many weird movies portray, the store is casually furnished, and it should even be said that it is not cared for at all. All kinds of items are put together without any classification, and even each of them hinders the customers from looking through them, the exhibits are all unremarkable, and the store is deliberately underlit, and the whole atmosphere can be described as extremely uncomfortable, if you are a normal person, let alone pick things, it is not so easy to stay in this place with a very unfriendly atmosphere. Of course, Zhengyan didn't come here to see these rags, although it was a bit messy, he still found the person in charge at the counter unimpeded.
Like the layout of the store, the man lay on the counter as if he didn't intend to do business at all, but although he felt sloppy and sloppy when he looked at his explosive head, he was unexpectedly keen, and just as Zhengyan approached the counter, the man raised his head slightly to glance at it, and then lowered his head and fell asleep.
Zhengyan looked at the man's movements speechlessly, it is said that even if he is lazy, how can he be vigilant when he sees a guy who is not a good kind running in front of him, but considering the identity of the man, he has probably seen all the characters like gods, but he actually slept so blatantly in front of others, isn't this guy afraid that others will sweep away all the things in his store!?
A little impatient Zhengyan is thinking about how to deal with this guy, you must know that according to intelligence, the most famous in this area is this shop, not to mention that even if he walks for a few days with the physical strength of a star soldier, it doesn't matter, but it's about to fall into the night, and the cocot who suffered some time ago is likely to come to him for a friendly conversation, although he is not afraid, but he is not sure that he will kill it immediately, rather than needlessly exposing the hole cards, Zhengyan is more willing to mend the knife surrounded by a group of cannon fodder, with the previous experience of Gaco's escape, Zhengyan has a premonition that it is impossible for him to kill this big soul in advance, is this because of his butterfly effect or the main god has long set them to have no loopholes, only Z Big knows.
Zhengyan looked around, and finally his eyes fell on the counter bell in the corner, which was not only old, but also deliberately placed in an inconspicuous corner, and seemed to have no awareness of the customer's use at all. Regardless of this, he stretched out his arm protected by steel armor and knocked on the bell 3 times.
However, the sloppy man only moved his head slightly a few times when he heard the sound, and then he didn't react, Zhengyan knocked hard 3 times, the man still didn't understand, Zhengyan was angry, and resolutely refused to let the man be at peace, he began to ring the bell at a rate of 10 times per second, and the crisp bell resounded throughout the antique shop, and the overly dense sound made this cheerful sound become an annoying noise. The man finally couldn't hold his hand, and with a flick of his hand, he slapped the bell away with one hand faster than the knight could capture, and in the process he didn't even look up, still maintaining the position of resting on his arm.
The bell slammed against the wall, and the old and loose structure instantly scattered into parts, and when he had done this, the man seemed to retract his hands and continue to sleep, completely ignoring the tall knight
Bang !! Zhengyan has never seen such a rude person, if it is usual, forget it, but when he logged in to the store as a guest, he actually dared to do this!!!? The man who was hit hard fell into great pain, but just when he was about to scold, he seemed to notice the figure of the violent person in front of him, and immediately shook it off, as if the uncle was fake just now, and apologized respectfully: "Wait, wait, this guest officer, there is something to say, there is something to say, the small hospitality is not good, don't be surprised, don't be surprised." ”
"Hmph!" rudely threw the guy back into his chair, saying that he was quite disliked by such people who were proficient in face-changing techniques, and that they had to be extra careful when dealing with such people, because not only did they always have a knife in their smiles, but they also did not know whether to live or die.
The man who was treated roughly wanted to curse a few times, but when he saw Zhengyan's dress and height, he put on a professional-level smile and asked in a low voice: "That, this guest officer, what does it need to be small?"
"————————" (lack of research here, who can help think of a 2B bit code, and finally related to Japanese culture and mythology) does not have a trace of grievance, and Zhengyan directly says the code.
"!!" The original squinting eyes froze for a moment, and then showed an incomparably bright smile, "Yes guest, it will be prepared for you immediately, please come inside." ”
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Zheng Zha, Zhang Jie, Zhan Lan, and Qi Teng were four people tossing and turning around in the scorching summer, trying to find something of value in the temple. This town has really reached the tourist season, and the third temple is also crowded with people, and the small open-word mountain gate keeps entering and exiting tourists, and the black crowd keeps going down the mountain road, and the temple on the top of the hill looks very quaint.
Zheng Zha exhaled and said, "Let's go, I hope this temple can find what we want...... Is it already three o'clock?"
The other three all sighed silently, although they didn't have much hope before, but when they were really completely disappointed, this feeling was absolutely uncomfortable.
In any case, the temple always has to go, the four of them mixed in the crowd and slowly walked towards the gate of the Kaizi Mountain, walking and walking, Zheng Zhe suddenly shuddered, he suddenly saw a miserable white child figure out of the crowd, an indescribable cold surged towards the four people, vaguely, as if a hand grabbed his left ankle from below.
"Huh!"
The amulet placed in the inner pocket of Zheng Zha's jacket burned instantly, this flame did not burn people, but produced a warmth from the burning place in the chest, the warmth went down the body, and instantly came to the ankle of the left foot, the cold hand immediately retracted, and only then did Zheng Zha recover from that state violently, and his left foot was already cold and numb.
"Huh!"
The amulet placed in the inner pocket of Zheng Zha's jacket burned instantly, this flame did not burn people, but produced a warmth from the burning place in the chest, the warmth went down the body, and instantly came to the ankle of the left foot, the cold hand immediately retracted, and only then did Zheng Zha recover from that state violently, and his left foot was already cold and numb.
The three of them were stunned for a moment when they saw Zheng Zha, and then he staggered when he walked, Zhang Jie hurriedly helped him and said, "What's the matter? Is your foot twisted?"
But they didn't want to, the three of them actually saw a black light flash on Zheng Zha's left hand, and the miniature submachine gun appeared there, and then he said with a serious expression: "I was attacked just now, hurry, hurry up and enter the temple! The amulet in my jacket pocket is burning......
The three of them couldn't care about this anymore, Zhang Jie and Qi Teng rushed to the gate of Kaizi Mountain as soon as they picked up Zheng Zha, no matter how many pedestrians there were in front of them, Qi Tengyi was a big man in the Northeast, tall and big, and Zhang Jie participated in several horror movies, second only to Zheng Zha's physical fitness, the two squeezed together, squeezed out a passage in the crowd, and finally rushed into the Kaizi Mountain Gate before the amulet was burned.
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"Hey, what kind of service do you need, guest?" came to a gloomy office, the environment here is quite decent, at first glance it looks like a normal reception room, except that the shutters are lowered, making this small space feel as dim as the outside. After the man invited the cloaked giant into the room, he sat down on the office chair with a drama-like movement, his hands were clasped together in a triangle, and a fox-like smile appeared on his face, which looked like two people from the sloppy uncle outside.
"Do you know about the grudge?" is not interested in nonsense, and Zhengyan always goes straight to the point about this kind of NPC. The man restrained his smile when he heard this, and his hands were on his chin as if he wanted to see through the words for a long time, before he relaxed and leaned back in his chair, and replied in a sincere tone with malice as soon as he heard it: "That's a troublesome case." Speaking nonsense with an expression that was not troublesome at all, the man suddenly stood up, and said in an optimistic tone while spreading: "Well, don't worry, the service of our company is first-class, amulet?
"I'm going to get rid of the curse. "Don't take the man's nonsense seriously, and say things that go beyond common sense.
... The man put his hand on his face in a cartoonish way, shook his head, and said helplessly: "It's a pity that although the business of the company is excellent, that kind of order exceeds our ability. ”
"Even if you have this?" Zheng Yan said and threw nothing, looking at the strange thing that fell on the table with a clatter, the man first stared at the thing in surprise, and asked with a stutter, "This... Is it?"
Seeing Zhengyan nodded, the man returned to his original fox smile and assumed the posture of a deacon: "I'm happy to serve you!"