Yawning and squatting at the door without manners, Chen Qi held a toothbrush in his mouth, grunting foam, and looking at the gray sky above his head with disgust.

In the London winter of 1986, there was no sweet air of freedom and democracy at all.

Gray shrouded in all day and night, the atmosphere was filled with the smoke and dust of burning coal, as well as the large amount of exhaust fumes produced by cars entering every home.

This situation made Chen Qi, as a traverser, feel that he had been trampled on by those public knowledgeable people in terms of IQ.

Although he came a little early, he couldn't be so bad.

"Said that the sky is blue, the water is clear, and you can drink it directly when you turn on the faucet, and that's the result?"

Glancing at the foaming industrial sewage in the small canal around him, Chen Qi took a sip of foam and rinsed it with the clean drinking water he had stockpiled.

He really believed in the evil of those bastards.

Chen Qi, who gave up continuing to complain about environmental issues and changed his mood, went into the house and took out a small basin, poured some fried fish bones left over from yesterday's food and put them at the door, and shouted: "Hey, it's time for breakfast." ”

"Meow~" The folded ear cat with gray-blue hair walked out of the corner of the heating cover on the side of the street, yawned lightly, and walked to Chen Qi's side very lazily, rubbing his trouser leg.

"It's useless to sell cute, I'm almost out of the pot here, I'm afraid that you won't go bankrupt directly, and it's fun to take care of you once in a while."

Chen Qi, who said this, hesitated for a moment, planned the amount of drinking water prepared for breakfast, found a small bowl and poured out half of it, bit the bread slices that popped out of the toaster, handed the bowl over, and muttered: "That's all, there is really nothing." ”

The folded ear cat tilted its head, stretched out its tongue and licked the water, which was regarded as gargling, and quietly ate the fried broken fish bones, that kind of elegant dining posture could make Chen Qi admire every time.

It's just a poor sour kitten, and I don't know it, I think it's a lady.

The tutor is really good.

Chen Qi, who swallowed the bread in two bites and never paid attention to etiquette when eating, took out a broom and dustpan from the house, and began to clean up the door of the house in the early morning, sweeping away the wine bottles, food packaging bags, and contraceptives one by one.

This is a fixed job that must be carried out once a day, after all, Chen Qi chose to open a store not in a prosperous area of the city, but in a satellite city of London, there are always many homeless people, young people who run out of hi, spend the night here or fight in the field, and litter garbage everywhere.

The sour smell brought by the wind made Chen Qi not even want to open the window many times, perhaps this is why he is willing to feed a cat.

Without him, it is enough to pay attention to the two words.

After cleaning up the garbage and sprinkling some lime on both sides of the house, the new day is officially started.

But before Chen Qi could put the tools in his hand back, he heard a shout not far away.

"Chen!" Driving a slightly rusty blue pickup truck, the uncle named John leaned out of the window and greeted Chen Qi eagerly: "There are good goods today!" ”

After placing the tools neatly and waiting for the pickup truck to come and park in front of him, Chen Qi asked, "Do you only have a longer memory when you are thrown out by me?" ”

"Eh, Chen Qi, listen to me, there are good goods this time!" John changed his name, and hurriedly spoke, dancing to get Chen Qi's attention.

"What good goods can you have, every time it's a broken mirror, a smoothed floor, a half-burned tapestry, and empty white teeth, but you can't get any money." Chen Qi coped casually, with no extra expression.

It's not that he was born with low emotional intelligence and is used to hitting others, but that social people can always blow up the balloons that children play with into the scale of hot air balloons, and if you believe it, you will lose.

"Don't say that, good goods are always hard to come by." With a name as ordinary as his face, John, who shook the authentic British accent, snorted a haha, pointed to the pickup and said: "You will definitely be satisfied with this goods, remember to give a good price." ”

Chen Qi was noncommittal about John's answer, as long as there are good goods, he has never been stingy with quotations, and it is precisely because of this that he made a deal with John a month ago, and this month he can hardly open the pot and need to eat bread for a living.

can't afford to raise a cat or something, it's not that Chen Qi is joking, but it's true.

"It's not that I don't believe you, it's that you often don't follow the routine." After saying something in Chinese that made John scratch his head, Chen Qi shook his head, as if he was lamenting his transaction record with John.

In Chen Qi's view, John's shop is like a black shop for online games, regularly brushing out some expensive items of acceptable quality, but the length of refresh and cooldown is uncertain, the fastest is three months, the slowest may be half a year, and the rest of the time is meaningless garbage, which has no value for recycling at all.

"Okay, then take out your good goods and take a look, it's better to see than to hear." patted the body of the pickup truck, although Chen Qi did not have expectations, he always had to find something to do in the morning.

"Hehe, you'll be absolutely surprised, but before that, let's finish this batch of goods, it's interesting to put the good things at the end, isn't it?"

John rubbed his hands, lifted the tarpaulin that covered the goods, and pointed to the pile of stinking furniture on the pickup, which was stained with blood that showed strange splatters and showed signs of being burned by fire.

There was no doubt that Chen Qi was sure that this was the garbage taken from the murder scene again, and the splashed blood was probably caused by a bullet penetrating it.

After all, John's job is to dispose of some unclowed garbage for the Justice and Political Affairs Section of the Clock Tower, which often haunts strange scenes that ordinary people will never see in their lifetime.

As for what is a clock tower......

"Didn't I advise you to change jobs, good luck won't always come." Chen Qi threw John a cigarette, put on gloves and began to clean up the goods on the car: "Although those people say that they are mysterious and cannot be divulged, I think you should understand it somewhat." ”

"Hey, what's not you understand, it's not so much that it's strictly forbidden to leak, it's better to pretend to be profound, I don't want others to occupy the already scarce resources, who doesn't like to eat alone, I like it too." He took out a lighter and lit it, took a deep breath of the cigarette holder, and John, who spit out white gas, shook his head and said, "Isn't there nothing satisfying?" ”

Dealing with these things for the Legal and Political Affairs Section is quite risky, but it is indeed a rare and good job.

If John resigns from here, it will be difficult for him to find the same relatively easy and well-paying job.

Here we have to talk about the body of the clock tower.

The name clock tower has two meanings. One refers to an organization that serves as the base camp of the magic world. The other refers to the school building of the highest institution with all basic subjects, five classrooms, and more than 70 elementary classrooms.

As for the magic itself, it is certainly not the kind of performing art that depends on tricks, psychology, skill and creativity.

Chen Qi is a pragmatic person, he is not interested in things that are simply used to attract people's attention, and things that can be worthy of his attention cannot be pure art.

The magic referred to here is a system of power that can literally manipulate the elements, change the structure of the physical form, possess all kinds of mysterious powers, and incorporate them into one's own use.

People who use magic can often accomplish certain phenomena that are beyond common sense, such as......

After kicking the cabinet that could not be opened due to the bumpy journey, Chen Qi reached out and picked up the crowbar that John had placed on the pickup.

This is a crowbar with mottled wear marks and rust, which is a little high to describe as unremarkable, even if it is used to pry the cabinet, it is a little reluctant, and a force error may be broken directly, no matter how you look at it, it belongs to the old items that should be eliminated.

But in Chen Qi's hands, it can still continue to complete its work, which is the most obvious power of magic.

"—Strengthened."

The single-byte magic, which was covered by the clothes, flashed through the pale cyan integrated circuit, and an indescribable force transpired from the body, purifying and purifying along the circuit to provide the energy of the magic operation...... Magic!

With the operation of the enhanced magic, the crowbar appeared with the same pattern as the integrated circuit board, as if it was an extension of the magic circuit, and put a layer of sharp armor on the crowbar that would have broken at any time.

Boom.

Chen Qi held the strengthened crowbar in his hand, but as soon as he poked it, he stabbed the keyhole of the cabinet and smashed it, and then quickly cut through the mess and cleaned up all the things with locks and things that needed to be separated from the crowbar.

He glanced at it, and didn't bother to clean it up, jumped out of the car and said, "The furniture is worthless, it doesn't weigh a few, there are traces of blood and collisions everywhere, and it will be folded into five pounds and twenty pence according to your weight." ”

"How much?!" John's eyes widened, as if he wanted to eat Chen Qi in front of him in one bite, and this bastard opened his mouth to come, not looking at Uncle John at all.

"Five pounds and twenty pence, I know you're going to say that this sofa is made of fine calfskin, and judging by the peculiar fine pores and patterns, it's fine, but it's ......."

Chen Qi paused for a moment, and pointed to the black-stained blood-stained sofa on the pickup truck angrily, as well as the bone fragments embedded in it: "The disposal of the murder scene is generally thrown away for incineration and destruction, if you can find someone else willing to accept it, I won't stop it, anyway, I will give this price, which is already very kind." ”

"Well, there is some truth in what you said, but this price can still be negotiated, you see, except for this sofa, nothing else is stained with blood."

John rolled his eyes, the situation made it impossible for him to talk nonsense with his eyes open.

Even a homeless man is afraid that he does not want to sleep on this sofa that smells of blood and may have his skin cut by bone fragments, and it is no problem to say that it should be thrown away and burned.

But the money is too little.

"It's all in tatters, five pounds is already very face-saving for you, it should have been thrown into the incinerator, either missing arms or legs, and some were half scorched by the flames."

Chen Qi said and turned around and walked towards the house: "Of course, if the things you bring are good enough, I can't give you a high price to collect this garbage." ”

The word 'garbage' accentuated the tone, and Chen Qi did not hide his disgust at all.

If it weren't for the special role of this small waste recycling shop, Chen Qi would not have had any dealings with John, who was involved in the Law and Political Science Department.

The easiest way to deal with things full of resentment and the smell of blood is to burn them, because once such things are gathered, they are prone to generate resentful spirits, wander and devour the essence of others, and finally cause a bunch of trouble.

And because of the smog control, Chen Qi has to dispose of this garbage in other ways, which undoubtedly increases his working hours, and in other places, not to mention five pounds, even if John pays upside down, others are afraid that they will not want it.

In the same way, even if others are willing to accept it, John doesn't have the courage to give it out, if there is an accident and investigate it to the end, he will not only lose his job but also be able to do it easily, there is a high probability that he will be disposed of with this garbage.

"Of course, I brought you something good." Without any more boring entanglements, John grabbed a guitar case from the passenger seat of the pickup truck, smiled and said, "You're going to love it." ”

That's the point of the bargain.

John's confident expression made Chen Qi a little surprised.

It seems that the store has really been refreshed, but John's store has been refreshed in advance, which is not a good sign, which means that something must have happened, Chen Qi, who knew it in his heart, nodded and said, "Come in and have a cup of tea." ”